Lets see, it was hot, strong head wind most of the way home and I got behind a garbage truck that had apperently just stopped at the dirty diaper dump. But, I got to ride home, bike got fixed this afternoon so it was great.

48 miles with 98* Temp on the bike.

A particularly nice ride this morning, with lots of stimulation. Bright, sunny, fairly warm (15 C with a 5 km/h wind) On the first bit I ride past a casino which always seems to be under renovation (additions) and directly across the street a commuter rail station is being built. Busy. Further along, the city is in the first stages of planning to rip up the road for something, maybe the commuter rail, which has been taking shape. Further along the fish plants were quite... ripe this morning, since it is starting to get a little warmer. Made two green lights and had to stop for only one... that was nice, but my country lane was absolutely great. The cranberry fields are still a little bare, but the blueberry fields are looking very lush and should be picked very soon. The ditches were bright green with algae, brighter than the golf course greens. At my wait for the tunnel bike shuttle I could just make out the Coast Mountains through a wee bit of pollution haze. Didn't see any large freighters arriving at the river port -- that would have been great. On the other side, the fields were looking good and the trucks didn't crowd me as I rode into the industrial park.

I left Burlington about 90 minutes later than normal, so I was taking it easy due to all the MUP traffic that's usually nonexistent when I ride. Some young woman on a road bike caught up to me while I was waiting to clear some cyclists and peds. I let her pass me, then I rode with her. She was actually pretty quick compared with what I usually see. 17-18MPH sustained. She tried to sprint a few times but for some reason that didn't make her go faster. She kept looking behind her, I guess to see where I was.

I didn't want to seem like I was stalking her so when we got north of the busy area, I passed and upped the pace to 21-22MPH. Pushing the 45-pound Liquid kinda hard. Basically I dropped her though. Oh well.

really, she dropped you, didnt she. And I bet she had a pink bike.

The ride home was brutal. Heat index over 100 with sustained headwinds of 30mph. I'm glad I don't have to do this very often because it really takes the fun out of the ride. Still, it only took about 10 minutes longer than normal.

Nice ride in with a few rain showers. Got a small piece of gravel stuck in my tire. Hearing the click, click, click on the pavement alerted me to stop and check. I knocked it off. I had a flat a week ago for ignoring that sound.

Just missed a big storm coming through on my way home. And by just missed I mean I had rain drops pelting me in the face like tiny little icicles while the sky was turning a sick green color on the downhill to my house. About 1 minute after I got home it started just pouring. Good time though!

Didn't get to commute to work, had a relative in the hospital. (again.) Managed to get 10 miles in between all my trips back and forth from the hospital. Parked in "employee of the month" parking at the ER (locked my bike to Staff Only parking sign right utside the door since there was no rack.) I rode my bike through a drive-through ATM, that was cool. Not a bad day to be on a bike, which made the rest of the day a bit easier.

One heck of a wind today. Hard and strong and still gusty. The wind was from the west and i was heading north into the city. I literally had to lean into the wind at points. When i hit the city i had to travel east so this brutal strong cross wind turned into a brutal strong tail wind I was literally flying down this single lane road doing 50-55kph. this was a construction zone for pretty much the entire length which means, i was actually speeding (50kph limit). Well guess what, every single cager still passed me, i think they calibrate their speed based on the cyclist. ie they have to be ahead of the cyclist regardless of speed/road conditions.

The morning commute was pretty wonderful. Sunny and cool. It was around 90 this afternoon and I got a ride home ::blush::

1005 Miles on an A320 with 155 people sweating all around me.

I miss my Stridle.... We are together again after my reverse 1005 mile A320 commute on Monday.

I rode into Naha from our my base (Kadena) in Okinawa about 40 miles round trip. The traffic is so bad that I was passing cars. The good thing about Japan is that we get to go to the front of the traffic light.

Much-needed commute. It was one of those rides that just makes stress melt away...I got on the bike, found a good cadence, put my legs on autopilot, and spent a peaceful 20 minutes watching the sunrise and all the cute little songbirds on the path. I love nature!

The ride home was icky. I forgot my shorts. NOOO!!! I was thinking of asking one of the EMTs to let me borrow some trauma shears so I could cut my jeans off before I left...hindsight being 20/20, I probably should have done it. 90* in long jeans is no fun.

Did 24 miles on my MTB in 93 degree heat. I ride 9 miles, one way, cutting through Downtown from my house in Oak Cliff just to get to my favorite bicycle trail.
Ernest

the ride in was good. managed to snap my rear deraileur cable tho.. fixed it once i got to work... went for a midday ride... and have yet to ride home and its 1 am here

Ride wasn't too bad this morning, took a more relaxed pace, as I didn't feel rushed. Forgot to grab water, also forgot to eat breakfast, so I feel pretty terrible right now, but the ride was nice. It's cool out this morning. Saw more cyclists then usual. Was encouraged.

Cool (69 deg) and rainy this morning. I waited until a little after 6 am in the hopes that the rain would pass, it only slowed so I decided to go for it. Of course, without fenders and rain jacket, I was soaked within the first hundred feet. But, I enjoyed it nontheless. Kept my speed to down so as to avoid skunk striping as much as possible and spun in order to give my legs a little break (awesome day of mountain biking yesterday). Upon arriving at the rack I notice someone had taken my usual spot, oh well. I left the Surly in the parking deck to drip dry, I'll show it some love this afternoon.

70s this morning, with a bit of humidity, but not bad. I took both weekend days off, and feel better for it. Loaded up the panniers this morning, since I needed to bring in this weeks towels and stuff, but it was still a nice quick ride. Back is doing much much better, so hopefully tomorrow's chiro visit will be the last one for a while!

I went to get coffee. It was a fiasco. I forgot part of my thermos and got coffee all over the place. Now I will exact my revenge on that @#$% coffee by drinking it. Other than that, the ride was fun.

Another beautiful happy fun ride to work.

Yesterday was my most RIDICULOUS commute ever. At least a part of it.

On my way back from work I went by a grocery store and loaded up on groceries. Well, it turned out that my wonderful new 40 L backpack is not quite as large as I hoped it would be...

Long story short, I ended up riding home with a stuffed backpack on my back, three plastic bags dangling from my left hand (I had to clutch them really hard since they didn't have handles! don't ask...), and with a saddle about eight inches lower than I normally want it to be, because I felt that with the cumbersome handling due to all these plastic bags (could hardly reach the brakes) I really wanted to be able to touch the ground with both feet. And that's after I ATE some of the stuff on the spot so I don't have to carry it. God, was it ever funny! Took me almost half an hour to ride 4 kilometres (~2.5 miles) from grocery store to home.

A little rain, almost missed a train waiting for my egg sandwich to go.

Day 2 with my computer. I hit 55kmph/33mph And averaged 22.0kmph
I needed to transport two textbooks so I brought my knapsack. I hate it. Racks are so much better. And now my back hurts.