Really nice. I was able to leave before 7 so as to get in a few extra miles. I took one of my standard 20-mile detours. Just a wonderful way to start the day.

I'm off this week due to railroad improvements on my route. I'll try Friday... said finish is tomorrow.

Very nice ride home. Beautiful day.

Nothing eventful today except I decided to take slightly longer route home with an added small hill. I really need to get used to hills.

A very nice morning at 66f (19C). No wind, so the speeds were very good. My seat post did come loose on a hill, and that is a wierd sensation, but easy to remedy and back upthe hill.

Bonked on the ride home yesterday. Busing it today, and starting to pay attention to nutrition again.

A very nice ride in this am, the temp is warm, no jacket needed. If the ride home is just as nice I may skip the big hill at the end and ride around it, which adds distance to my route, I need to build up my distance riding.

Great ride this morning after a day off, with mild temperatures, low humidity and no headwinds for a change. Had my second-fastest morning commute time yet, so everything was going right. Unfortunately I will probably have to drive tomorrow as the forecasts are calling for severe thunderstorms all afternoon and into the evening.

Light Rain all the way...47 degrees with an East wind that helped me alittle. Another great day for a bike commute!

My legs were wore out today. I drove. It would have been a nice morning to ride, but...

Woosy. :p

Chilly this morning with 10C. Still a nice day.

pretty pleasant morning commute, with decent temps and not too excessive humidity. Made good time, and I was only passed by one other cyclist :-)

However, I cannot say that yesterday's commuting experience was as pleasant. My twenty mile ride to work was fine - a bit warm, but overall decent. However, I had to leave work early, and in the interest of saving time, I took the bike on metro (which is permitted during non-rush). Exited the metro with no incident, and began the super-simple, 1.2 mile ride from the metro to my home. All was going swimmingly, despite some dog walkers who don't seem to understand that extend-a- leashes have no place on an MUP or other shared trail. However, I got to a 'crossroad' where two MUP's meet, and as I began my left turn, my bike slid beneath me as if I was on ice. In fact, it was a slightly damp surface, but probably covered with a very fine layer of silt, and possibly some sort of mildew, algae or other growing stuff. I have fallen like that once before, over 20 years ago, while in college, when I took a similar turn on dead leaves. I wasn't going terribly fast, but obviously it was fast enough to overcome my tires' traction on this surface. As my lesson - -I knew the path was somewhat damp, but it didn't seem nearly damp enough for this to have happened, and probably wouldn't have been absent the muck. My lesson, then, is 'don't assume a damp surface in a shady spot is just 'damp'. I'm used to this on wooden bridges, and I give them tons of respect (I go slow!) but on asphalt, this was new.

Fortunately, other than a small spot of road rash on my elbow, and some excessive dirt on my left pannier, all is well.

54F and raining (washed my road bike last night, a world first, apparently it's the same as washing a car)

Okay, it's not technically a commute, but on days when I work from home, I usually go for a 20km ride before work. This morning, I did a route I haven't done in a few weeks. Part of the route is on a MUP that runs through the city's river valley - beautiful trail and good climbs out of the valley. Problem is, there's some construction in the area with trucks and equipment driving along and over the trail. They've built a temporary boardwalk over the trail to protect it, but whoever built the boardwalk obviously aren't cyclists, as there's a large section where the boards run parallel to the direction of travel for trail users. The gaps between the boards are wide enough to swallow a narrow road bike tire, and that actually happened to me. Thankfully, I was aware of the potential danger, and was riding very slowly, so I didn't fall off my bike, and the wheel wasn't damaged. Still, it made me irate enough to write a letter to my city Councillor and provincial representative, as well as make the local bicycle commuter society aware of the problem. Grr.

Very pleasant this morning. This afternoon however will be frying pan hot.

Beautiful ride home this morning. 48 degrees and sunny sweater was almost too much by the 5 mile mark. Two moose grazing on the golf course at Russian Jack.

I've been lazy - and haven't been getting enough sleep. I haven't commuted via bicycle at all this week...and today is my "Friday".

Should we start a new thread "Why I Didn't Commute Today"?

Noooooooooo.....

I ran 8 miles of hills yesterday after work with a buddy, and my legs were dead this morning so I took the motorcycle. Riding gives me more cardio stamina than running did, because I can do it longer. But the running still wears my legs out worse, probably the pounding.

You know it is daytime light out at 5:40 am??? I get out early so I can run my lights, and it seems I can't get out early enough. I am out that house at 5:25 am.. It is almost light out. At 5:40 is it completely light!! dammnnn!! The first leg of my commute was sweet as always. Getting ready to get off early and jump into the 2nd leg.. ;)

Depends on where you live:

Caribou, ME: 4:41am
Key West: 6:38am

But, yeah - here in the SF Bay Area, it's around 5:45 or so.

In that case, spin in a lower gear.

Consider it a recovery week.

Cold and rainy... But at least I had the wind in my back, so it was kind of short and bittersweet anyways, if you know what I mean.

A very nice morning commute in, not to warm and a nice sky blue above. I ended up adding a mile and a half in on my ride home yesterday. I think I will either do the same ride again home today or go the ride that adds four miles in. I am not sure. It depends on what kind of time I have this afternoon.

Commutes have been very nice last two days. I finally figured I adjusted my rear brakes a little too fine the other day and that was actually resulting in some pad rub. Fixed that and now all is well...(except I broke my glasses in two last night and I am going on a three week overseas trip on Tuesday!)

Well, half a commute is better than none. I rode into work this morning but plan to catch a ride home with my wife this afternoon. Forecasters are calling for severe thunderstorms here all afternoon and into the evening, so I was initially planning to drive today. But the weather was OK this morning and my wife is meeting me downtown for dinner this evening, so I'll just catch a ride with her -- and figure out how to get my bike home later.

A very nice ride in with heavy traffic. The temps are lovely 71f (22c). Storms are predicted to come ealier than expected, so it will be a wait and see afternoon.

Today was day 2 of commuting. Yesterday I took the heavy steel singlespeed Dutch like bike, and today took in the aluminium road bike. I cut my time in half today, but needed to shower once I got here. Thankfully we have a full lockerroom with showers, and an indoor bike garage that security looks over. Logged about 25 miles so far, which is better than the 0 I would have done had I taken the train.

About 60 degrees, cloudy, bike shorts were in order. First leg of the commute sweet. I am getting faster too, I can see that!! ;) I am taking hills quicker and with less effort. Also, I found out, when I am taking a lane, don't half step.. A section of road where I usually take the full lane, I moved over a little to let cars by, and sure enough, they passed me within a foot. Won't happen again.. IMO, communting is an ongoing learning process that never stops..

I haven't been on a motorcycle this year!! ;)