68 degrees and damp, with light winds. Rode in with my only friend in the new neighborhood, a triathlete. The pace was a bit quicker than my normal, but the pleasant conversation made the effort worthwhile. Great guy, and I enjoyed the ride. Life is good.

Muggy, but overcast with chances of rain today. Dry ride in though.

I pass a couple of corn fields and the stalks are maybe 5 feet tall now. This morning I heard a rustling as I was going by and figured it was a bird or squirrel. A few strokes later and the sound was still with me. I glance over and saw the back of a deer about 3 rows of corn into the field. It had been tracking in my direction but turned just as I looked over.

Good ride in overall.

This was my first commute in almost three weeks, since having a collarbone plate installed and a week vacation prior to that. It felt good to be back in the saddle although I was cautious about it avoiding all chance of a fall. The forecast is for 50% chance of thunderstorms this evening. I'm really hoping to find a gap in the rains, although it's going to be wet regardless.

Tired legs this morning after riding a lot of miles over the weekend. I probably would have taken a rest day, but we are supposed to have a bunch of thunderstorms tomorrow, so I decided to gut it out today and drive tomorrow.

I was up in the mountains over the weekend, riding 43 miles on the Blue Ridge Parkway on Saturday and another 44 miles on the New River Trail on Sunday. I had initially planned to ride on the parkway both days but it was so difficult that I needed an easier ride the next day, and the New River Trail is flat. Both rides were very scenic in their own ways. The parkway has incredible vistas with lots of wildflowers and wildlife (mostly deer) on the roadsides. You are either grinding up long climbs or screaming down steep descents the entire time. The New River Trail is one of my favorite places to ride, alongside one of the most beautiful rivers in the country, as well as many bluffs, bridges and overlooks.

Wow, was it humid this morning. Clothes were completely soaked with sweat by the time I arrived at the office, and certainly won't be dry when I have to put them back on this afternoon. (Why don't I remember to bring a second set up riding clothes on days like this???) It rained last night, so the streets were wet again... but that's been fairly par for the course this spring/summer. Weather front is supposed to push through sometime today and start to reduce the humidity, which sounds good to me.

Rained out this morning again. The rest of the week looks good though.

Starting my second week of full-on commuting. My car was totaled in a hail storm so we are down to one car. I like having the excuse that I have to ride to work. I can take a company car if I have to go to a client site. May be a bit rainy today and tomorrow.

Skunk stripe. Wet road but no rain and no puddles either, just wet road.

Had to negotiate deer on bike trail. Fawn in the trail so I knew Mom would either be in front or behind. Turns out one was in front and another behind.

Scraped the same elbow on the same dead bush as last week... maybe tomorrow I'll ride out with a folding saw! I think I have one somewhere.

Still loving the single-track commute.

Nowhere to hang dry?

Even in high humidity, high performance fabrics with airflow dry quickly.

Weather forecast last night said "slight" chance of showers and storms around 7 AM this morning. Got up at 5, saw lightning in the distance, radar showed a line of storms still ~80-100 miles away, heading south/southeast. So I set off heading south at 6 AM, but the clouds moved in much quicker than anticipated. The rain managed to hold off until exactly when I got under the cover at the office front door. Made it in near record time thanks to a 15 MPH north wind. :thumb:

Had a great commute home Friday. Cloudy all day with some light drizzle from time to time. As I left work the skies slowly cleared. Went from cloudy to mostly sunny on my 2 hour commute home. Felt great with below the average temps.

Today is a good day. I got in a ride before work (working from home today), then after lunch, I had to run a couple errands which I did by bike.

My city recently decided to scrub out a few bike lanes, and my errands took me along one road where the lanes are already gone. On the one hand, I don't mind that they're going - they were poorly planned and underused - but on the other hand, it ticks me off that the city is removing these lanes with no plans to replace them with something better. The whining drivers won this round.

Pretty warm today, at least to this northerner. No way to ride without getting drenched in sweat.

Commute was uneventful yet nice. switched bikes for the day.

Gorgeous, 510AM departure, 58 degrees, great sunrise with Air Force 1 silhouetted on the ramp, NE dry wind. Days you live for the ride.

Were the bike lanes removed from multi-lane roads? I would see that as a nice opportunity to control the right lane without harassment from motorists to "get in the bike lane".

Unfortunately not. I have a locker, but they don't dry much in there.

High humidity and high dew point at 71F. Overcast skies with chances of afternoon thunderstorms.
In general, a good day to ride.

Dangit. Once again I had everything packed and ready to go for this morning, then slept right past 5 until almost 6 AM. So I drove the car. Hoping to ride both tomorrow and Thursday.

Took a rest from commuting but rode around the neighborhood in the predawn light. I like the way my lights work during dusk/ dawn. SO BRIGHT :) My knee felt better this morning a physical therapist friend believes I must have bruised the bone on my kneecap. I felt good riding for 11miles the last three were harder to push down on the uphills. It was damp but glasses did not fog up except at one light which was kinda nice. 60% chance of rain but I am working some overtime at normal quitting time so hopefully it will move on by the time I go home.

Foggy at the bottoms...but generally a nice ride in this morning. I noticed though that the batteries in my tail light strobe were dead. I had plenty of juice in the other lights though, so no concerns. But, it is staying dark much later now in the AM. Soon, the whole ride in will be under lights.

No commute yesterday or today, but some good urban riding hopping from the co op to a brewery, and from one nightlife hotspot to the next. I expect tomorrow will have more riding in store for me.

The storms did roll through as I had feared yesterday evening. Continuous rolling thunder, hard winds, heavy downpour. I had thought that I might get out ahead of it, possibly home even before it would catch me, but it built quickly in the time it took to walk from the door to the bike rack. Misjudging it worked in my favor this time, since I just waited it out in the parking garage - about 20 minutes and it was mostly over.

Still cautious over an injury, I took the sidewalk for a short stretch. I didn't want to risk the shenanigans of the impatient drivers on the narrow, slick road this time. By blind luck I had noticed construction by some utility workers when driving by last week. It was near the end of the section and I had noted then that it was torn up and half-assed, without even a cone for warning. It didn't look so bad approaching, a thin layer of mud and debris from the storm over the top of the "repair" but that was deceptive. After a split second of cutting through the mud, the several inches of loose mushy gravel grabbed hold of my 25mm tires and brought me almost to a stop. Had I naively tried to cross it at even 10 or 15 mph there would have been trouble - I felt like I had escaped a cleverly disguised booby-trap and considered myself fortunate.

Nasty little single track wreck this morning in dust-and-rocks. I've got some authentic road rash on my right forearm, plus some bruises and scratches up and down the right side, and a pull or something in my pec. Tore my shorts and scratched my phone screen, too.

I didn't realize how much it was going to suck until I sat at my desk and realized my forearm, when using the trackball, would be resting on the road rash. I might switch back to the mouse for a day or three.

Yes, and my thoughts exactly. I'm not really one to "take the lane" most of the time; I'm happy to ride 3-4 feet from the curb, but as I rode, I thought, "screw you drivers, this is what you get for removing the bike lane. Go around!" :) I have never ridden that road before, but I might have to make it a habit now.

Rode in to the office today in beautiful morning weather. Thanks to an upcoming professional bike race, a stretch of my commute that overlaps the race route had all the potholes nicely repaired! Nothing like an internationally televised event to get a city to clean itself up a bit.