Commute was great. Nice easy morning ride. 101 in the afternoon, but overcast. It's about to rain now. I'm glad I beat the rain home....I have no rain gear.

My afternoon commute is always harder, but It's getting pretty easy now.

Hot and humid and bit chance for t storms. I have a 20 minute ride to the gym where I swim for 20-30 minutes before heading to the office. My boss is an avid cyclist, so before leaving I sent him a link to the doppler radar showing the front moving in. In short, he said "go for it". Halfway through my swim I could see the sky turn almost black.

To make a long story short, I avoided the storm, but had to wait it out for 20 minutes or so at the gym before the final leg.

A bad day on the bike is better than a good day driving, IMO.

Just ordered some rain gear from Penn Cycle. Good price on decent gear.
http://penncycle.com/itemdetails.cfm...4&catalogId=39

That's really funny. Looked like you were washing something off, i dunno. But i saw those boats too - pretty awesome! I'll definitely try stop next time, now that i'm sure it was you...

In other news, i had a crappy headwind on the way home. Took me an extra 6 minutes.

20.7 miles total, 87 minutes of some of the best part of my day!
had alittle "flash-back" this am of riding in the California Cascades, with cooler temp and smells......
anyway, good day!
thanks for asking!

Baby wipes! No chain grease on the hands.

That's too funny. I was kind of proud of myself for remembering I had some in the trailer with the spare diapers.

It's always a headwind home. I don't understand why. Something to do with looking at the emperor in a former life, I guess.

Fast ride this morning due to a mild tailwind. Hit every green light coming down Clarendon between the Clarendon and Rosslyn metros in Arlington. My 10.8 mi. ride was 38:35. New PR!

Sweaty, uneventful ride in- Dew point of 71F. Code orange ozone alert. Supposed to hit 99F this afternoon....ick. Supposed to get some cooler temps, lower humidity for the weekend though.

Reminds me of my old life. I lived on N. Quincy for a while, ten+ years ago. It sure is different around there now. Did they tear down Dremo's yet? :(

For me: Low 60sF and overcast. No wind. My ride was fast. I pushed a little bit and caught a guy on a road bike. I stayed a respectful distance behind him but he kept turning his head to see where I was. I felt guilty. :o Eventually he left the MUP.

The number of cyclists I'm seeing every day seems to be increasing.

Wet ride in Columbus, OH today.... plus, I'm still tired from my epic ride on Sunday. So, tough one, overall. Good ride though, good time, good speed, just wet and very achy.

Some rides are idyllic, even poetic, tributes to the relationship between human and machine. Last night was NOT one of them. It was dark (left work at 2200 due to a class), there was traffic, and all I could think about was how much sleep I was missing out on.

This morning, though, reminded me why I ride my bike. The weather was perfect. The sun was thinking about coming up but hadn't made its appearance yet. There was no traffic, except for a few conveniently-located cars to trip the lights for me.

my head still feels a bit stuffed up but i had a good ride just the same...getting really good at holding trackstands at lights so i don't have to get back into the clips when i take off
it was a bit cool this morning so i wore a jacket but then i got warm quickly...my chain was quiet and the tension was just right

Walked out of my apartment at 5:50 this morning; pumped up my tires on the bike using my car and electric tire pump (see, cars are good for something :lol:); hit the road at 6:00, my first commute from the apartment rather than a drive/bike combo and with my brand new bucket panniers. Weather was already warm, 82 degrees with 79% humidity (felt like 89), at 6:00am!!! :eek: Rode the new extended route without incident, than on C.T. Switzer, the light bracket of my rack broke off and dropped my tail light, again! :cry: Recovered light and continued. (I should get the reflective sheets for my bucket panniers this week.) I crossed the railroad tracks at Cowan and saw a train coming from the west (beat one train).

I was at the corner of 13th St. and 30th Ave., two left turn lanes; I'm in the right left turn lane, right over the left-side induction wire when a blue pick-up truck pulls up in the left left turn lane. 30th Ave. is a four lane road, so when the light turns green, we both go, the pick-up moves into the right lane (the same lane I'm taking), goes down one block, and pulls into the Exxon station to get gas. I just had to laugh. :lol:

I was on 11th St., getting ready to turn onto 38th Ave. then W. Railroad St. when I heard another train (west bound, this time), crossed the tracks before the lights and gates were activated; second train beat. :D Had a bright yellow Monte Carlo SS pass fairly close to me, but very slowly. Odd, but okay. In all, took me 70 minutes to ride 16 miles, averaging 13.7 MPH (counting stops). Oh, and the bucket panniers rocked. I'll post more about those later. ;)

It was a gorgeous morning at the outset. Typicaly Alberta weather with patches of rain here and there. I started off riding in the sun, then roade into a patch of drizzle which was not even enough to show on the road. Then i rode into some pretty good rain which wasn't a big deal. Not until a car passed me and hit a puddle just right to soak me. It wasn't long before i rode out of the rain and back into the sun though, i was mostly dry by the time i arrived at work.

Good ride in today. 50% humidity, so i was pretty wet when i got to work. Luckily i have my own office to cool down in...

I have no work today and couldn't face the preschool grind, so no commute. We're playing hooky and going to the playground.

Woke up, fell out of bed, dragged a comb across my head...

Oi! Running very late this morning. Traffic wasn't bad, as many folks are away on holiday this week.

Was going to work at home then watch my son's swim class from the balcony before heading in, but sh*t happened and I had to rushrushrush into the office. My wife is driving today so I might still be able to bike over to her place and grab the car to get back for the swim class. Recent speed record anyway!

50%? I checked this morning before leaving the house; we were at 79% humidity! Forecast calls for 99 or 100 this afternoon.

Uneventful ride.

nice ride in this morning - uneventful. will be a sticky ride home - i walked somewhere downtown for lunch today and got drenched just from that!

Found my way downstairs and drank a cup;
And looking up, I noticed I was late.

I was running a little late this morning too, but I was at the office until 10:30 last night so everybody cut me a little slack.

I rode very easily since I was tired and the air was fairly muggy and I didn't want to arrive sweaty.

Typical morning ride. Mid 80's and dark. No wind.

Ride home was awesome! 95 degrees, but cloud coverage the whole way. A little humidity in the air, with a 50% chance of thunderstorms.
I even took a 2 mile detour to put some air in my tires. I wanted to keep riding!

Beautiful weather for the ride home.

Sun is setting much earlier these days. Glad i got my headlight and taillight delivered today. Will get to try it out on Thursday's ride home.

Partly cloudy, 80ish, light wind, very nice. Legs seemed little heavy after doing the MS175 "Pedal the Plains" this weekend. They came around though. Ran over a dead, rotting gopher. SweeeeT!

My speed has improved to the point that even taking it easy, riding is faster than taking the bus. I am very happy about this, but I know I'll be annoyed on the rare occasion that I can't ride.

I took a slightly different way home after meeting my sister for dinner. Lots of construction on the road I chose and more wind than I've dealt with in months. Still, it was an interesting ride. Stopped at the store on the way home and crammed more stuff than I thought possible in to my panniers. I had to strap my box of oatmeal to the rear rack.

I thought I was doing well to ride 6 miles to work until another new workers rode in from 11 miles away.