I think of it as a blog for people not narcissistic enough to have an entire website dedicated to themselves.

Nice and cool. Gentle breeze, 50 degrees or so.

+1 -- And a nice read for commuters. I like reading other people's daily experiences, because it makes me feel like a part of something. We're doing something that is a bit unusual in a world view, but this thread makes me think I'm normal

LOL. I still don't feel normal even when I'm here.

Rode through a spectacular thunderstorm on the way home today. Surprisingly awesome.

I'm posting now for my ride yesterday morning. Seeing how it's actually Wednesday now.

The weather here was great so I decided to get out and ride a good long ride. Not a commute, rather a commute around town here.

Decided to ride some hills today and did a total ascent of 2275 in climbing on the ride. Took just a little over 3 hours but had a great time. I think I'm going to try the same ride again on my geared CX bike next time. Really tired.

2C/35F ... new XC ski gloves are great!

++1 even though I don't really know the people on this thread they're my accountability community. I find I'm often thinking about what I'll write as I'm riding!

Mild this morning, 3C, and with a forecasted 9C this afternoon, I'm glad I went light on the gear. Tomorrow, it is forecast to go from a low of 6C to a high of 12C, Friday mild too but fortunately, I don't work on Saturday because the high is forecasted to be -2C and a low of -8C. Monday looks reasonable though.

Was running late this morning so I took the short route in (4km) but with high school basketball to coach this afternoon, I'll be taking a longer route home than normal, plus getting home at about 9pm. Last Wednesday, one of the boys looked at me, all dressed up to ride home, and said, "Are you riding home? Wow, that's legit!" :lol:

++1 :)

Welcome! Great to have another DC-areas cyclist in the thread.

As for me today, it was chilly and I took an odd and inefficient route in due ti some traffic and construction.

What state is Fredricksburg in?

32F/0C. Not much happened. Got passed by a city bus being followed by many cars. That was unusual. Once they cleared out there wasn't much traffic at all.

Got to work and a coworker was walking in and held the door wide open and said, "Ride right in!" :D I was too timid. Not much room for the handlebars as it is.

I couldn't do that, we have those rotating doors, my bike and I'd get royally messed up.

32F this morning and pea soup fog. Ran with all lights on, and a safety vest. Glasses fogged, mirror fogged and even the backs of my gloves had condensation on them.

As I mentioned in previous post I destroyed the battery pack for my DIY lights. I got the new battery, an XP18000, on Monday and have rode with it for two days. Looks like I could run all the lights for about 4 hours , and it weighs only about a pound!

For the record my lights are 2x6W LEDs, a 2W LED, and 2x Whelen TIR 3's (emergency vehicle flashers)

-3C with a 15kph headwind, tomorrow is supposed to get colder again. My legs were stiff and sore for the whole ride in, which I haven't experienced for quite some time now.

The streets started glazing over during the ride home last nice. I slid around a bit, but nothing requiring drastic corrections. This morning there was a lot of ice so I took the mtb. The slush on the MUP had frozen trapping yesterday's bicycle tire ruts. I had to be careful to keep my tire from falling into them when crossing the unplowed sections. Freezing rain warning, so it could be very slick for the ride home.

Today my mountain bike became the 3rd of my bikes to pass 2,000km for the year. Hooray for arbitrary unit of measure specific milestones!

Eww, my classes are done and it is zero and pouring rain. The ride home will not be pleasant.

Misty rain but fairly warm. Too warm for a jacket, but too wet to not wear one. I hate days like this.

30F in the morning, 53F on the way home. almost have to bring two sets of riding gear.

so on the way home i ended up wearing the base/jersey, that were under my jacket in the morning, and just putting a plastic shopping bag between them for wind resistance on the chest. worked out great.

No commute today, Happy Thanksgiving! There is a 5:00 AM start tomorrow... :(

4C/38F, not so bad.

brought the gf with me, which was quite nice.

The rain yesterday didn't turn out to be too bad. I had a waterproof jacket and wind pants with me so I stayed dry. The only issue was impaired visibility from water on my glasses.

I rode a block this morning before turning around to go back home. Between the freezing rain yesterday afternoon and 10cm of snow on top of that, today's commute is a no go. The snow has made the ice super polished. Would have been the perfect day to try out studded fat tires, but I'm still waiting for them to arrive.

My 4.8" knobby Surly Bud should arrive today or tomorrow, though it probably wouldn't have helped today either.

It's been raining almost non-stop since Monday, so today's overcast but dry weather was a welcome change. Unfortunately some parts of the route to work still has some minor flooding, but nothing that can't be ridden through (carefully).

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wow! nice scenery. i'm jealous.

Lol, by sheer chance, I was looking at some old photos I took a while back in Germany during Christmas and was hoping to be able to visit again!

Got a ride in with the wife today with my bike on the back of the car. All was well, looking forward to my ride home, and when I went to remove the seat-cover (plastic bag) it snagged on my tail light and snapped the taillight off :(

Rode home with only the orange reflector on the back of my pannier, bummed about the light. This is why I can't have nice things.

Anyone know if Sigma sells spare parts for their lights? Never mind, I will look it up myself.

Turned out to be a 3 day week for me, shortest all semester. Between a temperature of below -20C tomorrow morning, ice everywhere and deep snow ruts, riding 16km tomorrow would be a bit too risky for my liking.

Good decision.

Wow, a warm and strong east wind made it quite a slow ride home. I just relaxed and enjoyed it :)

110 km by car... it's a little too cold and snowy to ride this distance.

Looking forward to a bikey commute tomorrow and Sunday... have some radical things in the works too.

Didn't commute today by bike because I must leave work directly for the Swiss Light Source to work all night there

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