Warm and fast. I'm taking the long way home today.

where do you commute from/to (which boroughs/islands)?

A whopping 4 km from Södermalm to Årsta.

I lived at Medborgarplatsen (på Åsögatan) and when I travel to Stockholm, I spend a fair bit of time in Årsta (as one of my good friends lives 100m from Årsta Torg). I was in Göteborg last week and I really miss Stockholm this time of year :(

Overcast this morning, and there were some drops of rain. Temperature was about 65F/18C. Light tailwind.

Got a late start, but made good time in. Took a slightly different route, that is more downhill than up, even though it adds a half a mile. I'm sure I'll get some flak for it, but I drafted a dump truck for about 1/2 mile to 34 mph on a small climb..really made it fly by. Also my front brake quick release was up and I didn't realize it till I got to work.

Hey, small world! :)

54F, nice ride, light jacked. Perfect.

Overslept and took an alternate route. Shorter and faster surface than the MUP, but more traffic lights, heavy traffic, and hills. Fortunately school traffic is over with and it seemed like someone had flattened out the hills a little since the last time I did that :)

48F, clammy, highly effaced cloud cover (shadows on the ground but no real point-source of light)

Pro tip: don't jump the green. (I should know better.)

Rinde in was nice. and I beat the afternoon thunderstorm home.

Picked up a Topeak Beam rack over the weekend at the REI sale. Got to try it out on the Hot Rod R300 today. Bought the one with the most drop but it still sits pretty high. Overall it worked out pretty good and its getting a couple bikes back in rotation now that I have a way to get my lunch to work. First steep hill I had to stand up on with the tall gears the weight of the beam and my MTX bag up that high caught me off guard giving the bike a pendulum feeling. Changed my style so as not to swing the bike back and forth as much and it was fine after that.

I got to thinking and I haven't rode that bike since October and completely forgot how much I like the way it rides. The Carbon fork sure takes out a lot of Buzz that Stiff T700 transmits.

I caught part of that storm :lol: I might have outrun it but my wife came out to meet me, a couple of miles out, and I came upon her sheltering under a bridge. It was just a gentle, warm rain though and I cajoled her into proceeding, even across the wet boardwalk which was good practice for her. She had a fear of the wood having slipped a few times on wet leaves, ice, and mud but with a little coaching she was fine.

beat the rain in to work! hopefully, it will be nice the rest of the day!

Finnally, the clouds are not coving up the light, but they are still promising rain. A plesant ride in at 64f (18c). There should be some sort of light until the end of the 1st week in August.

Fine ride in. 52F so I wore a light jacket,thin ear cover, and full fingered gloves. Wish they were all like this one, perfect, but that would get boring, I guess.

Weather was fine, roads were a pain. First I was stuck in a sea of commuter buses, then right by my building there was a car blocking the pedestrian crossing where I make the final turn to my building. The guy is giving me the "courtesy wave sorry!" thing, I'm like "don't wave just back up twop feet you numbskull!"

pushed it out to 5 miles this morning (i'm relatively new to riding anywhere outside of my trainer). nice tailwind for the first 2 miles, evil headwind for the last 2.5.

Tailwinds make you weak.

Thunderstorms all over the place yesterday, but I managed to make it home without getting caught in any. Our weather has turned hot and humid again, like mid-summer, with the threat of storms every afternoon. Every day, deciding whether to ride is like Russian roulette as some of the storms have been violent with high winds, hail and lots of lightning. I keep one of my computer windows opened to the weather radar all afternoon so I can monitor the storms and make a break for home if I need to. In the past, I've sometimes had to stay at work an extra 2 hours waiting out storms.

58F/14C. Overcast, with a light drizzle for a few minutes. I took the MUP route along Lake Champlain. Very enjoyable. Many boats are back on their moorings for the summer, and I saw a couple of runners likely training for this weekend's marathon.

I was a little bit tired because my wife woke me up last night at 11:30, sort of standing over me, wide-eyed, and saying, "BAT!" At first I thought she was channeling Hunter S. Thompson, but no. Indeed... Bat!

I like bats. I removed the little dude (dudette?) carefully and it flew off into the night sky.

Commute was good this morning - Mid/Low 50º's, no wind, hardly any traffic. My left knee has been aching, so I took it easy. It took me about 5-6 minutes longer than usual to get to work this morning, but I was making a conscious effort to not push too hard. Kept my HR around 125.

http://app.strava.com/rides/9163694

48F gray and wet; no outright precip though

56F overcast and dry, but it was a great commute, after 2 days of waiting for new tires :)

14 miles into my 20 mile commute the drive side cup in my BB snapped. It was far and away the weirdest mechanical failure that I have ever experienced.

I sent out an SOS email & started hoofing it with the bike. I made it four miles before a colleague took pity & came to get me.

I like bats too. One of my long-neglected projects is to build a bat house. We have a secondary chimney that would be a great mounting spot. I just haven't gotten around to doing it.

My ride today was super-mellow. I've been trying to get into a routine of using my commute for training (Nevada City is coming up fast) and that means some days I ride the race bike and do intervals and other days I ride the FG or beater and go super easy.

Today's commute was happily boring compared to yesterday :).

Yesterday I had a flat tire within about a mile of the Metro Station . . . okay, took me about 15 minutes to replace the tube and get back underway. so that means I missed the 6:05AM train (my usual) and had to go with the 6:20 train. No worries right? Wrong.

The Metro Train stopped at the Avalon Blvd. station (people got off, others got on . . . ) and then didn't move for almost 20 minutes. They did come on the intercom, telling us that they had a mechanical problem and that they were tryng a work-around (huh?), and that they'd called Metro for "Trouble-Shooting."

At least the ventalation was working, so we didn't swelter while we waited. Then, eventually . . . the train started moving and all was back to normal.

Never had a stop that long (or any mechanical) on the Metro Train before. They're electric trains, so they should be pretty simple (I would think, maybe I'm wrong).

My commuter bike (DaHon Curve) sat folded up by my feet the whole time and didn't seem to mind the delay :thumb:!

Rick / OCRR

It was glorious seeing as how I have not even touched my bike since April 30th due to an illness. Felt good to be whipping through the wind on my way to work. Felt weird for the first few minutes. Like it was foreign. After the "reality" set in that I was once again riding to work it was just "like riding a bike". lol

I rode through a pile of gnats or mosquitos so that was pretty gross but I managed. Now I get to hoof it home in a few hours to see how much I lost in terms of stamina over the past 22 days.

Going to be a WET ride home here in Okeechobee, FL. A little rain cell just settled over the office and is dumping rain on the ground. 30 minutes to go before the end of the day, but the three miles alongside the highway will be miserable, even if the rain stops now. I may have to hang out here a little while and wait it out, and wait for the roads to drain before I get on the road home. Local weather radar shows that it's not even raining down at my house 7.8 miles away.... go figure.

Tractor Tom in Okeechobee, FL

Pretty good headwind, and warm. Great ride home.