Arrgh. I keep forgetting to call in sick on Freshman Move-in Day here at Duke. :mad::mad:

It's as bad as you can imagine; in one day, normal traffic amounts increase fourfold -
a bunch of lost cagers reading maps and running stop signs, clueless pedestrians jumping out in front of your bike, rental security guards with attitude problems...

All that, and 100° temps today. I should have gone to the beach. :mad:

A bit of a slow-down due to a roadwork detour this morning, but I'm actually thrilled because it is absolutely the worst stretch of road (in terms of surface quality) on my commute. Otherwise, just enjoying the cool morning rides!

The students are back on campus (crowded streets and lots of cell phone traffic) and it's ridiculously hot. Today our city (or maybe state - I sort of tune out when they start talking about the heat) is breaking a record for the hottest August on record. I got to work almost 2 hours ago and I'm still sweating. Ugh!

I agree with the other guys from the Triangle, hot and humid this morning with nasty heat for the ride home. Last night was pretty bad, temp was 103 on my way home. I am learning to deal with it by taking it easier and drinking a lot of fluids. I am moving up to the Boston area in October, I can't wait for the relief in heat, I'm just hoping that I can continue riding to work.

Wet! Come on man, this is (suppoed to be) the time of year that makes it all worthwhile, breezy, warm, and sunny! What's with the premature cold and clammy???

Cool and windy again, facing some fierce headwind gusts at times - took the short road into work having ridden ~9 miles already this morning (in 28 mins too :D).

I was almost hit by a car today as I was bicycling into the office. It was a 4-way intersection with a green light for me to go. As I was passing in front of the black Honda Accord, the young lady started accelerating her car to make a right turn [into me]. From my peripheral vision, I saw the Accord start to move so I pedaled hard and swerved as far left as possible without getting into the next lane. Fortunately she eventually saw me, she braked, blushed, and gave me the sorry wave with an embarrassed look on her face.

Warm, calm and clear. Too bad I feel like crap! My wife had some sort of night-terror episode at about 3:00 a.m. and woke me up, on top of which my allergies kept me sniffling until well after midnight. The city had one of the roads on my route dug up, so we had to detour. I just felt sluggish all the way in, and made some questionable filtering choices. I'm not dead, so that's a plus.

Wet!

First flat since I started commuting. No problems with my spare tube. I believe karma paid me back, I didn't stop to check on a stopped biker yesterday on the way to work so no one stopped to check me out today, not that I needed anything. I'll be checking on stopped commuters from from now on.

I'm bummed as my commute has come to a stop as I'm stuck working from home as our office is being renovated. I'll have to keep riding after work to keep my legs. I'll be stuck at home at least a month.

Oh boy is gonna be hot today. They're saying 100F but it feels like it's going to be hotter.

Today i was riding down the hill towards the office when a taxi starting doing what looked like a U-turn in the middle of the street, which was strange for a one-way. He was perpendicular to the flow of traffic and i was trying to scoot around him, since i was going about 25 mph i didn't want to brake suddenly. The taxi just kept moving and we almost got real close and comfortable. Luckily he had his window down and i yelled something, so finally he stopped moving forward and i made it past.

What really surprised me was the look on the guy's face, it was as if he had seen a ghost. He had no idea i was even there, and that always freaks me out. How can a taxi be pulling whatever this maneuver was without even paying attention to the traffic coming his way?
As cyclists we have to pay attention to everything with no time for our minds drifting, however, we cannot expect the same from drivers, and sometimes i think i forget this fact.

Finally beat the 40mph barrier on my favourite downhill..! Am very chuffed.

The morning dawned coolish and beautiful. Then, off my usual route, I chanced upon the TCU women's cross country team on a training run. Healthy beauties, all.

It was a good morning.

in retrospect I think it must have rained a lot this morning 'cause my socks and gloves never dried out during the workday. Looks drier outside now, at least.

Nice ride home after the weather turned, but this morning's ride was through a very fine drizzle that had me soaked in only a couple of minutes. Ah well, fall is approaching.

Today was --- like I was riding in the clouds .... actually I was. City encased in a misty fog, enough so that motorists had their wipers on the lowest setting - and bet they wished they had lower. Enough to make me damp --- and frizz the hair. Ahh well, such is life of a commuter! :) (nice ride overall)

Coolest morning in about two weeks this morning due to the rain that came through last night. Gonna get hot again though later on. I am going to get my nice road bike out and give it a workout tomorrow since it's been neglected for about a month.

Nice morning. Really should fire up the headlight, but I only have one more commute day before labor day so I guess it stays shelved 'til Sep. Considered mtn biking it up the railroad grade (tracks removed), I even have a bank errand that would make that 'efficient', route-wise anyway, but also was late for a meeting so took the fast(er) bike up the typical routes. Time enough for usual JAM avoiding extensions though. Nice and peaceful. And fast!

No commute since Thursday last week--travelling Friday, working from home Monday-today. I miss my bike.

Nice easy ride today. It was a bit humid but we didn't get hit with the rain that's been threatening to fall this morning. For some reason I've been commuting on my Karate Monkey 1x9 lately (past week and a half or so), but today I hauled out the Rob Roy commuter fixie and rode it in to work. Definitely noticed the weight difference on my ride. Haven't had any car altercations since going through a windshield a few weeks ago. Trying to make it a habit (not having altercations, that is).

Fast (unofficial PR) and stylish (wore my BF NorCal jersey today).

We hit two detours on the way in this morning, and actually had to backtrack. :( Traffic volume was up again, but it wasn't horrible.

No commute today, had to go to a customer site for part of the day. Riding in on the subway, though, I got to entertain a little kid who decided that my blinky (permanently attached to my bag) was just the coolest toy he'd ever played with.