A very nice uneventful commute this morning with the temp at 45f degrees, and a big full moon in the sky.

Our rainy streak continues but I went ahead and rode today so I could top 600 miles for the month. That's a decent total considering that I was on vacation for a week and missed two weekends of riding during that period, and it's been raining like crazy here for the past 4 days. The forecast is calling for more rain through the entire week. Our weather is very streaky around here. We can go for months when it hardly ever rains, and then it's like someone flipped a switch and it rains nearly every day for weeks.

Nice ride into the direction of the full moon this morning. Nice Temps, no wind, clear skies. Can't beat that.

Pleasant low 60's but unfortunately too cloudy to see the moon

Saw two other commuters on my way in this morning. I think that ties the record (for a single day) I've seen for the year. :rolleyes:

Low 60's and light winds made for a very nice ride. Moon was beautiful last night and this morning!

Consecutive commute #108 :

Loaded up my truck with my son's golf clubs, his string bass and my bike, then drove the 3 miles to his school. Parked the truck, then rode my bike 9 miles from there to work. Kind of felt rotten this morning. Been fighting a cold that seems to be lingering on longer than it should. Had a headache to boot. Despite not feeling that great I never had the temptation to just keep driving all the way to work instead of riding. However, I did have the tempation to just ride my bike back home and go back to bed. Resisted the urge. Not sure why. Loyalty to my employer I guess.

When my son gets to school he'll pull his string bass out of my truck. Because of its size they won't let him take it on the bus and it also won't fit in my wife's Saturn, so we have to get a bit creative at times to haul this instrument back and forth. He could have played the flute, but that would have been too easy on us.
:)

Then at 2:30 I'll ride back to his school to pick him up at 3:00. We'll load my bike and his string bass back into the truck and I'll drive him across town to the golf course where he has a tournament that starts at 4:00.

Normally, I would then park the truck at the golf course and ride back to work to finish my shift, then return to the course via bike to pick up my son after he's done playing. Over the weekend I was looking at the calendar and realized he only has a couple tournaments left and I'd really like to watch him play, so I think I'm going to play hooky and not ride back to work this afternoon. I'll just hang out with the spectators and watch my son play instead. So I won't get in as many bicycle miles today as normal, but I'm still riding.

As a bonus, today will probably be the longest time I'll ever spend on a golf course without losing a ball.

I did not ride to work because I had to hustle out of town on Friday and I did not get a chance to ride Saturday or Sunday due to the constant rain. I told my wife that I wanted to ride this morning no matter what. I did I rode through the rain/ drizzle/ fog/ clouds to work.. At least it was almost 70 degrees... this week looks like a wet week all the way around. Like [MENTION=86492]tarwheel[/MENTION] said not much rain for a while and then it just settles in and is constant.

I could not live in the Pacific Northwest.. :(

An exceptionally cool 63* morning ride. Took it easy, as my legs are sore from 23 mile return trip Friday, 20 miles Saturday, and 10 miles on my own plus a 30 mile road/gravel group ride on Sunday. I'm going to try to push through for a long ride this afternoon, I'd like to hit 300 for the month and I have 54 to go.

Drizzly in my part of NC too. It's such a light rain that I didn't get wet, just damp. A constant breeze (created by me) seemed to keep it ok. Warm and humid too. Almost felt like August, just a few degrees cooler.

35F and foggy. Supposed too hit the 70s by quitting time. Shoes and socks (vs sandals) definitely the right choice to ride in. Shorts pretty debatable but will work out fine going home.

I took the rain bike to work Friday, not that it was raining all that hard but I hadn't used it since doing a few tweaks. My "rain bike" is a full-fairing (Coroplast) GMC Denali, kind of overkill unless it's really cold and/or really wet. It felt kind of sluggish, being heavy, but I couldn't really compare speeds since I don't have a speedometer on it and no one else was out. It's pleasant though when I get used to the lack of wind, and of course the rain doesn't impact me much. I then spent Sunday fixing up a design defect, evidently a mental slip when I built this years model, and securing some fasteners that I'd half-a$$ed put on to correct "later". I'm almost looking forward to some "miserable" weather to have an excuse to ride it now.

Still summer here, for good or ill. I have not been looking forward to this week. We had four major bad-news events in the last two weeks at work, and are waiting for the fallout. My hand hurts, the handlebars and bike I'm using aren't helping. It's a pledge drive week on the radio. I found the "Icebreaker Episode" of Dinner Party Download, which is a bunch of movie stars telling their kids' terrible jokes... the show started doing it for a sound check and now starts each episode with one and then publishes a yearly collection.

Knock knock
Who's there
To
To who?
No, "to whom"

25mph winds, flash floods, buckets of rain. Could go my whole life without doing that one again...

Yesterday morning, around 7h15 AM, at Tollembeek, where I take the train (half hour) to Brussels.
Lately I mostly commute to a further railway station where more trains arrive.

If you see this beautiful landscape, I don't have to explain you how my commute was yesterday morning, right?

Yesterday's ride home, work side, was 22 miles, 15 of it off road. A repeat of Friday's ride, sans flats . From work, it's about 2.3 miles to trail #1 , which is just over a mile and dumps into the levy trails (mixed surface - dirt, hardpack gravel, loose gravel). 8 miles of that boneshaking ride and it's to campion trail, a paved mup with no intersections. Use is such that you can ride as fast as you'd like, and there's the right mix of straightaways and twists and turns that it keeps things interesting. Terminates on another levy trail that's open on trail side but fenced on the other.... So I hop the fence. Alternative is to go under a bridge, but where's the fun in that?

Final 5 miles is road, busy but courteous(ish) drivers.

Didn't break any speed records, but it was an awesome ride. I plan on doing some iteration of this weekly. Now that I've ridden it twice I know the areas I'd like to tweak.

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Was lots of fun to hop!

Got soaked on the ride home yesterday from steady showers streaming up from the South Atlantic. Heavy rain when I got up this morning with the same expected to continue all day, so I drove. When I left work yesterday, the radar seemed to indicate a window in the showers and I thought that I might make it home unscathed. However, it started sprinkling, then drizzling and then pouring within just a few miles, so I pulled up under a tree and put my raincoat on. It was so warm outside that the raincoat was really too much clothing but I don't like riding in soaking wet clothes. I also had to remove my glasses so I could see and rode all the way home without them. Like RidingMatthew said, I couldn't live in the Pacific Northwest or other areas where it rains all the time. We've had about 5 days of continuous rain and it's expected to continue through the weekend, and I'm about to go crazy.

Rain overnight, intermittant drizzle this morning's commute. Minor spill on the MUP 3/4 of the way to work. Only my dignity damaged, but I'm sure my heartrate spiked. This was exactly how I broke my collarbone at the beginning of the summer. At least I slowed down and didn't try to catch myself on with arm extended this time.

Oh well, life should be an adventure.

Popped a spoke last night on the way home during high-torque, hard acceleration as I crossed a road. Once again (last month, I cracked my rim in the area of an eyelet in similar fashion), I thought the snapping sound I heard was a chain issue, realizing only after I got home that I broke a spoke. Easy fix, but not until I buy some new spokes. So, no riding this AM. :(

My two worst weeks of commuting are Fall and Spring pledge drives! A balmy 70F this morning, very humid and wet from rain last night. 90% chance of rain this afternoon, which really means 'maybe' in the midwest

Drizzle and rainy days are continuing. I've been okay riding in it so far as it has only been damp and/or light rain. Really warm and humid today though - 72F, 95% humidity & 70F dew point.

My office moved yesterday. My department had been in an annex and has now moved back to the main building. It means about an additional third of a mile of gentle downhill on the way in. So far I've handled the additional mileage alright, but I'll probably need more chocolate to make sure I don't run too low on energy.

Could have ridden yesterday despite rain, but I was feeling a little worn out from the weekend, plus had lots of extra stuff I needed to bring in, plus errands to run at lunch, so I drove.

Rode today, bit of drizzle and rain left as I left the house, but that dried up fairly quick. Traffic seemed light(er) which was nice.

Exact same weather for me today. Sweating buckets after 15 miles.

Last weekend was starting to feel like fall, but morning today was a pleasant 72 F. Cut nearly 10 min. from my normal commute time by riding on a busy 6-lane street instead of my preferred route. The reasons: 1. Construction with heavy equipment like tractors blocking the quieter road on my usual route. 2. Rumors of cops ticketing cyclists not stopping at stop signs. I'm guilty of "Idaho-ing" stop signs, but I always stop if another vehicle got there first. Anyway, despite the traffic backup, I didn't have to filter or anything. Ok, I did switch to the sidewalk when the bus in my lane stopped, then switched back to the road.

The traffic backup was pretty bad - all the way to the airport. I passed several cars that never caught up with me before I reached the bridge to DC.

Great morning for a commute! Here I am on the South Walnut Creek Hike/Bike Trail in Austin, Texas. My wife has my rack and Ortliebs, probably forever, so I'm using my indestructible Chouinard Equipment (nowadays Patagonia) climbing bag I bought in 1983. The bag is supporting the bike (Wabi Classic) here. Hopefully this is a good "before" picture that I can later pair with an "after" picture when I lose 20 pounds. . . . :lol:

This morning was the "long" route, 11 miles. The short route to work is only 4.4 miles.

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I drove today and was glad I did it poured down this morning. I don't think that I would have felt safe riding in this amount of rain. taking both kids to IHOP tonight while wife has some alone time knitting... looking forward to eating with my kiddos!

Evening commute...

First time in months that I've been drenched - like "I jumped in the pool with all my clothes on" drenched. I always ride at an easy pace when I commute, so I didn't have to brake hard. Mt. Vernon Trail wasn't totally emptied out by the rain - there were still some dedicated runners out there.

At E. Glebe and Potomac Ave, there was cyclist lying on the ground, in the middle of the intersection, with a bike lying nearby. He (I think it was a he) appeared to be unconscious, with a blanket over him, but was surrounded by concerned citizens, one of whom was on a mobile phone, presumably calling for help. Traffic in the direction of that intersection from Potomac Yards was totally blocked, because nobody wanted to risk moving the injured cyclist, though any of those cars could have just turned around and taken any number of routes through Potomac Yards. I did hear some sirens as I rode away from the intersection.

Got up at 4 am to get to the airport, my strangest commute in awhile. Air travel weirdness. I left the car parked there at the airport because everyone in the family would rather be car-free for 3 days than drive twice through Atlanta. Which is where the bike part comes in: my son took his bike to his job this time! And of course thoroughly enjoyed it. Evidently it's still rainstorming in Alpharetta but he just waited out the heavy part and hit the gap in the rain like a champ.

Last night I had nice tail wind. I could not look at my computer, but I was traveling at the same speed as traffic for large parts of my commute on a 50km/h road. Finished my 8 mile road with a 19.2 mi/h average, one of my fastest commute times. A lot of fun, but legs were burned out on the ride into the same wind this morning.

73F/23C muggy morning after heavy rains last night.

Wow that is scary stuff, hope that rider is recovering. I also got the full drenching coming into Alexandria from DC. This was my third commute to and from our new home over by Huntington Metro. Between 10.4 - 11 miles so far. This is a whole different ball game for me now after having a daily 4-mile one way but so far I love it.

I've discovered the importance of a good headlamp...will be shopping this weekend.

Warm and high humidity again today. Though it has not been too bad.

I'm helping a couple of friends load a truck for a move tonight. They live about 2 miles from my work, so I'll just ride there. Depending on how late it goes I may get a pickup from my wife later on.