We've been enjoying nice 65* afternoon weather. The thermometer on our house has read 47*F the last two mornings, but my ride drops into a valley for 4 miles, where my bike thermometer dropped to 33*F and there was frost.
This is the last day. Tomorrow they're saying cooler and rain, Saturday they say sleet/snow. I guess it may be time to put the studs on.

my legs felt a bit tired today too, probably because i ran last night and it's the end of the week...i have to clean my chain tonight it's pretty gunked up and i should probably check the tension as well

cheers all~

ok, so I was actually worried/scared about the ride home last night.
First real time in wet type conditions. No actual rain falling, but the roads were wet and my first commute from work since the time change. Darkness, but ahh.. I added the new NiteRider light.

Ok, it was just flat awesome. I was so stoked when I got home (sweating like a hog cause I overdressed), that I wanted to just go ride more.

This morning, well... it was a good ride in. I like the mornings. Always do.

Passed two other commuters on the way in, nice brisk air, rack only had 3 of us there, today.

Ok, today was by far the most badass commute I've ever done. Rain like you wouldn't believe and a decent headwind the entire way. My rain gear worked fairly well for the first 15k but by the time I got to work I might as well have jumped into the ocean. Not only that, when I got to work I realised I forgot to bring a shirt to work in. So here I am sitting in just my jeans and an old sweatshirt that left at work thank god. I'm looking outside and the the streets are flooding. I am taking the bus home. Gotta love living on the west coast of Canada.

+1

(knocks on wood)

Absolutely gorgeous morning. My buddy and I had agreed to go for an easy spin but we got into a pretty heated argument about Prop 8 and we found that we went much harder than expected.

Political arguments: the new training tool.

Hahahaha...so much for rec/recovery ride.

Rain wind this morning, mostly wind but temps near 60 deg. I'm hoping the wind will be at my back on the way home. I'm sure glad I added fenders. I have a new LHT that I'm anxious to ride for the first time but ever since I got it it's been raining and I've been hesitant to ride in the rain when I have another bike to ride.

Took the car in for scheduled maintenance today, so I drove.

Crappy. That's how it was. Though at least I didn't have to ride the T.

I forgot my fenders, so I arrived with a thoroughly wet and dirty butt. Ran over a piece of glass that managed to puncture my front Ultra Gatorskin (and of course, the tube). My Superflash developed a leak and was activating the button at random. My headlight's batteries died. Finally, some idiot turned off of a one-way onto the two-way that I was on, but did so apparently thinking that the latter was also a one-way, i.e. in my lane, directly toward me. That last one was only a close call, not a collision, but still . . . .

Here's hoping that the ride home is better. Luckily, my wonderful girlfriend was running late and was able to bring in my fenders with her, and I was able to make it over there during lunch, so at least there's that.

No flat today, but no biking either. Meeting near home until a little after 1; got out just as a huge several day rainstorm rolled in and also just as my wife finished volunteering in our 7 yr old's classroom. Since she works near me I just caught a ride back out w/ her.

I guess I did ride to the 7 yr old's grade school this morning so I got that much commuting in.

My commute today was the first one in two weeks due to travel and work schedule. Too eventful for me.

I almost got doored by someone getting out of the passenger side of an Au Bon Pan catering van on the way in.

On the way home, first ride home in the dark, wrecked about a half mile from the house. Rode through an intersection, then missed the road narrowing, dropped about two inches onto the gravel shoulder, which caught my front wheel as I tried to get back onto the road and caused me to lay the bike down at about 13 mph. Luckily the bike is ok (panniers and handlebars only hit the ground), I have some nice road rash on my left knee and elbow. Good thing there wasn't a car behind me, THAT would have hurt!

I really, really didn't feel like riding home tonight--depressed about various things and sleep-deprived as only a father of twins or prisoner of war can be--and I was within a breath of chucking it and taking the subway. But I dragged the bib and tights on and dragged my ass out and pedaled.

Not only did I get home in a better mood, but I ran into pm124 on the greenway and had a short, pleasant chat, and then tonight I got a PM from oboeguy, asking if that was me on the greenway.

My commute is my new social life.

Swam home from work tonight.

Doggy-Pedalled the whole way.

Anyone from the Seattle area knows exactly what I'm talking about. :)

It was a little chilly, but not too bad.

Part of my ride is a pedestrian/bicyclist bridge over a major roadway in Jacksonville, NC. As I coasted across the apex, I could see a river of angry red lights to the left and nervous white lights to the right...As far as the eye could see...And I was at peace. Then I zipped to work and even had a nice conversation with a much faster fellow on a Giant OCR-something-or-other.

Wow, sounds like a lot of tough commutes yesterday !! Thankfully for me, it was close to perfect riding home yesterday - sunny and 75, light tailwind, beautiful leaf colors, traffic well behaved. Pleasant ride this AM, though I came close to wrecking while going up a short steep hill - I was standing on the pedals forcing my 240 pound body up the hill when my bike either ghost shifted, or I broke a tooth off of the chain ring....came close to doing a body slam onto the pavement at 10 mph. Should be another idyllic ride home this eve

Resipsa -- That sounds like the Commute through Hell. You're making me feel guilty because we are having absolutely perfect conditions for bike commuting in NC after several days of chilly rain. With the daily savings change, it's light again in the mornings and warmer. The temperature was in the low 50s F this morning and it's supposed to hit 80 F this afternoon. I might just leave work a little early this afternoon so I can add some extra miles to my commute. You couldn't ask for nicer weather this time of year.

First ride since, well, gosh, I can't remember it's been so long. :p Got off to a rather late start (damn intestinal tract :(). Felt pretty good, got a good rhythm going until I got to Texas Ave. Apparently, either the city or CSX is working on the railroad crossings and the crossing at Texas Ave. was blocked off and torn up. Had to walk the bike over broken asphalt. :notamused: I never did get my rhythm back (don't you just hate when that happens?). Another part of my route was blocked off due to construction, but I just switched over to a parallel road (W. Railroad St.) for the rest of the ride.

Weather this morning was 69° with about 93% humidity. Forecast is for rain and possible thundershowers. :eek::D

Invigorating. Temp about 45, calm. The old saying, "If you're not cold for the first mile, you're overdressed," applied... only it was more like 2 miles. Once I got warmed up, though, I wished I could have kept going. The air felt so crisp. Lovely.

Overslept (again) I hate when that happens. I did do the partial-commute though. The rain had stopped, but the roads were still wet. It was nice, if too short.

warm and a bit wet this morning but i had a blast...i got to wear shorts too
looking forward to the ride home

Awesome ride in. Cool and still. Got abit too hot 3/4 of the way in so i stripped off my arm warmers and that made it pretty comfortable.

Tailwind! and I crossed the 200 mile mark for the month! woo hoo!

Shorts and mittens! A balmy 0C this morning, bone dry and the skies are clear. Traffic was both light and slow, so I got to take it easy on the last few blocks into work. When I get home, my hope is that my new Easton EC90 handlebar and [dare to dream] my order from CRC will be waiting for me. The Powertap wheel [from Ryder Hesjedal!] should be here next week! Woot!!!shift1!!