good: early start, new panniers, blooming maple trees
not-so-good: slow me, cold toes

Hi,
This is a neat idea. Today I did my first commute, and it was cold. I hope tomorrow will be easier and warmer. We'll see...

Velogirl...Cold feet will definately slow your commute times. Hope your next commute is warmer.

Temperature extremes today. Frost last night, departing at 41F, arriving at 47F temps expected to be 65. Thought I took it easy this morning but arrived 1mph faster than last week.

Still honk'n slow compared to those racer dudes ;) A co worker saw me on a climb and exclaimed at how fast I was. ROFL she didn't see my speedometer... :) Nice compliment anyway.

Go again? Wind coming FROM the North? Hmmmm. I'll have to check this theory out on the road.

Good commute today.

Caught up to a guy on a mountain bike (Seeing other morning bikers around here is pretty rare, so that's always a plus.) while climbing a hill. Gave a friendly greeting as I passed and he asked "Why ya goin' so fast?" Replied, "Late for work." as I rolled on by (I got a bit of a late start.).

Later on in the commute one car buzzes me kinda close, while another looks like they're gonna pull out of a side street in front of me. Gave the "evil eye" to the side street car and felt myself starting to get that pissed-off-at-all-cagers feeling, and talked myself out of it.

Had the realization that I'm out on my bike, on a cool, clear morning, *enjoying* my ride to work while they're trapped in their crappy metal-cage probably stressed out and hating it, so why should I let their misery impinge on my good commute-vibe? Close call, dumb-move, whatever, as long as I'm still rolling it's not gonna do me much good to get pissed off. Trying to get better at maintaining that bike-zen attitude instead of raging. It's easy on mornings like today.

-Trevor

Well, here in the Sacto Valley, the prevailing wind is from the SSW. When it starts blowing from the north, it's a reverse flow. Same phenomenon as the Santa Ana for our SoCal friends.

29F, clear & calm at 6AM today. I woke up with a sore throat & cold but decided to try to ride it off & pushed all the way into work. Didn't work, & I began to lose my voice. Co-workers told me to go away & come back healthy so I came home for good at 12:30 pm. Sunny and 61F, think I'll take a nap this afternoon. Don

Fell sideways into pool yesterday, hip bounced really hard off coping on the way. Nowhere near enough range of motion to ride a bike today:(
Enjoy yourselves, and stay away from pools (they are more dangerous than you might think.

Took the long way home and bonked bad. Had to pull off into the park and get off the bike. I couldn't believe how bad I felt. It took me twice the normal time to get home We had a party at work today and I ate a few cookies about an hour before I hit the road and I think that contributed.

I was halfway up one of the two colossal hills I take up to school every morning today, when what happens, but a bright orange corolla with a spoiler and a grille the size of my bookshelf screeches through a stop sign and stops, dead, two inches from my right leg.

He had kind of a quizzical look, and I was mighty p***ed off, so I gave him the friendly finger and kept going.

Otherwise it was fine. Doesn't compare to the time this punk opened his car door at night and smoked my leg with it.

nice 10mile ride home today. Weather has been great lately.....pretty uneventful ride, until I got 1/2 mile from home and I see a lady pickup a piece of trash and walk over to some hedges and throw it behind. I was wondering what the hell she was doing until I got closer and saw a child squatting and going to the bathroom right there next to the sidewalk! She was throwing the toilet paper the child used behind some hedges.

Oh, and I passed a one-way cyclist with walkman blaring too.

anyway, it was a great ride.

Bad day at work, But good ride to work and home .
Still had a lot of frozen mud and snow .
I hope it warms up soon . Have a good nite .

Good commute in today. Warmer temps, it was around 24F. High today is supposed to get around 45F. Light traffic and no wind. Very good commute.

Cookies will do that. :eek:
The winds we've had lately haven't helped either. I had a headwind all the way to work last Friday. Yesterday (Monday) I had crosswinds all the way home.

Cooler this morning, thankfully no repeat of yesterday's bonking. A Lexus SUV with a Sorba sticker and a bike rack pulled the ol' right hook, nearly taking off my front wheel.

still cold, still slow, but I'm a happy gal to be on my bike!

and i'm happy that you're happy. and happy to be on my bike as well.

almost 30 °F today, and sunny to begin, but now cloudy; weak threat of "flurries". i am now officially allowing myself to imagine a ride into work that does not include dodging patches of ice.

It was a great morning. The temps were in the mid teens and there was no wind. I noticed that I am not as sweaty when I get into the office. There were a few icy spots here and there, but overall the path was in very good shape. I saw one other person out on a bike this morning and a few fresh tracks that tell me there were others out earlier.

First commute of the year this morning. Wow! Someone must have went out and made the hills more steep. I picked a good day for it -- sunny, no wind, temperature in the 20s (supposed to push 40 for the ride home).

My light bit the dust this past December, so I waited for the sunlight to catch up with me. That's my excuse and I'm sticking to it.

Fabulous commute in this morning. Bright, sunny low to mid 30s -- although a little more wind than necessary. The trail was generally dry and any wet areas were still frozen this morning so the ride was easy. The new bike worked beautifully and shaved 20 minutes off my previous commute time. The gear was all working as it should and I had the right layers on to be warm but not sweaty. It was kind of weird to be on the trail with so many other riders you could actually do a traffic report, but it was smooth sailing all the way.

What a morning! Left the house at 6am, rode a fast 20 mile loop, kept getting faster and faster. A "no-chain day" as George Hincapie would say.

Swung home to shower, eat breakfast, and change a couple of diapers before heading into work. So hard to glide up to the bike cage when I really wanted to keep going for another 20.

2 inches of fresh powder this morning. Someplaces the wind blew it into a nice drift. It was kind of cool plowing through a foot of deep snow in places. The way the spokes and drive train kick up the snow made me feel like I must be hard core. At least that is what one co-worker said the other day. I know for a fact my core is soft like a marshmellow. Anyways, good commute with -13C and snow and no wind.

I hate the cold with a passion. I stay out of the cold as much as possible. Sucks that I live in Canada, eh? Once it warms up (ie. I cannot see my breath in the morning), I guess I'll have to start posting here.

Sask, if you consider yourself softcore, then I must be filled with gas.

Oh wait, that's not what I meant to say....!

My commute sucked this morning. 2 (out of 17) miles out, and I noticed a spoke was broken. Decided just to ride back home and take it in to the shop.

Thursday, I will have freshly built Mavic Open Pros with some decent spokes (and some new tires - Specialized Mondo Pros).

Todays ride home there were thousands of Monarchs everywhere on the road, I had lots of fun dodging them while they sun in the bike lane. Perfect day for a ride!