Awesome, I made the light, hopped the curb flawlessly to cut thru the park, down hill to the round about, which I shot thru, continued down hill (hauling) to the local MUP. At the end of the MUP I attacked a slight hill, turned the corner, got the mail and even cut 5 minutes from my normal time.

Wind, wind, wind. Yesterday morning, strong headwind, and this morning it was 20 mph into my face, but still had nice rides both ways as it's been really cool in the morning, just can already tell the dryness of winter is going to be rough on me. On the way home last night though, the wind was blowing over 30mph at my back. I was flying down the road, and finished my 8 miles with a 20.3 mph average, which is very good for the number of stops I put in, and maybe my fastest ride ever. The downside was I almost got T-boned by a going crossing the road when I was cruising at 30mph. It was scary, and I'm lucky he noticed me enough to slow down, because I didn't have enough time.

After the rainiest April-September ever here, I will get a full week in on my bike. My legs were tired on Wednesday, but it's a good workout, and enjoyable to boot, so I was really happy with my commute this week.

Just got done raining but didn't trust it so wore my new poncho with short sleeve's under. Besides my hands getting a little cold perfect! Think I'll start halving my ride.. a head covering is perfect for the first half but the second half climbing hills gets hot.

Cyclocross training!

A beautiful morning for a ride. And better yet, it's FRIDAY! The family is going camping this weekend with a few of my son's friends for an overnight birthday party. I say a few, I think we will have 15 kids total - ACK! My main goal will be to make sure nobody wanders off or gets burned by the fire.

I rode all the way in to work for the first time in over a year on Monday and did it again this morning. I had great weather both days.

It's a little odd getting used to riding while it's still dark.

I'm no longer allowed to park the bike in the office like I've done all along so I had to replace my lost U-lock.

There's already a dirt path that runs parallel to the wood chip detour path. Looks like a new one, compared to the other dirt paths that I usually see further north along the Mt. Vernon Trail that were ground into the grass by regular cyclocross training.

Yay Friday indeed!

Well back! 63F, cloudy, dark today - but I'm back on the bike so all's right with the world! Bizarre mup experience this morning - it's not unusual to see dpw vehicles on the trail doing maintenance so when I saw headlights in the distance I just figured it was one of their trucks. Turns out it was a woman in an suv, apparently made a wrong turn (I still can't figure out how) and was driving on the mup. She didn't seem too concerned!

Awesome fall sunrise. Unreal.
As I stopped to take this picture, some woman running by said "This is insane."
http://bikeforums.net/attachment.php...hmentid=481714

this x2. Good luck with the return to work!

50s and drizzly

Looks great. Is that titanium?

Yes.

http://www.bikeforums.net/classic-vi...lemond-ti.html

I have a 2-mile section of my commute that has been under construction for over 6-months. It's a 4-lane road with a center-turn-lane but it doesn't have much traffic, which is why I go that way. During construction it's been reduced to a single lane each direction (but still has the center turn lane available). It appears they are replacing a storm-sewer pipeline that runs under the outer lanes. They are nearly completed and getting ready to repave the entire stretch.

The lanes closures were different this morning with all traffic pushed over to the south side of the road and a single lane for each direction. All was fine, until I look up the road and see a car coming directly toward me in the wrong lane!!! Apparently they didn't notice the new lane configuration and were barreling down the wrong side! I had enough room to get on the other side of the cones and let them pass, but yelled and pointed that they were in the wrong lane. I went over a hill and didn't see if they ever figured it out or not. Just another reminder to myself to NEVER let your guard down.

Bonus miles today! My daughter's horse riding lessons were changed so I am able to ride longer on the way home.

I met a buddy to ride together on Wednesday and I am sure it was good for him. His father recently passed away. My buddy and I have ridden together a lot mostly mountain bike but this time he was on mountain bike and I was on cyclocross plus Panniers with fairly smooth 28mm tires and he said that the curves and extra gravel kinda even things out. (I rode slow to stay with him):) still a fun ride taking it easy.

I will ride faster tonight pizza and movie with the family.

It was a very nice ride in this morning. The road was almost empty of cars. It felt like I had the road to myself. The temp was 44f degrees when I left the house. Though it is dark there is not much to see, but some open areas, as the light comes from the sky the colors are beautiful.

Nice cool crisp morning when I stepped out the door, took a minute to get the bike ready and enjoy. The commute was quickly soured as I'm approaching the exit to my neighborhood, a camry makes an aggressive left into my neighborhood. So we're headed at each other for at least 150 ft. as i'm about 5 feet from the first driveway on the street (my right) she swings left at the last minute into the driveway. I braked hard and managed to avoid hitting her by about 1 foot. Shined my headlight directly into her face and nothing, no acknowledgment, apology or anything. As I'm standing there straddling my bike she backs out leaves the neighborhood and heads in the opposite direction. I kept my cool mainly because she had a young child in the back seat, but man that was the closest I've come to being hit. If I had taken a few seconds less getting the bike ready I would've been run over.The rest of the commute was nice and uneventful.

Uneventful and temp just right. Sounds like the wind is going to be issue going home. With the change of the season it's now out of the north west pretty much everyday. During the spring/summer has been out of the south east.

A cool 52F this morning, but sunny and gonna warm up this afternoon. My chain got jammed just after I made a right onto a busier road. I couldn't pedal, but had just enough momentum that I managed to coast to a left turn lane and cross over to a sidewalk and fix it.

Consecutive bicycle commute #116 :

About a 30 mph headwind this morning. Wind is supposed to dramatically pick up today, so if the wind shifts as I expect it to the ride home should be more exciting. At least I took my road bike which is much more wind-friendly than my hybrid.

It was 56 degrees this morning. I wore my jacket thinking it might be a bit chilly out with the wind (hey, they call it a "windbreaker" right?) Big mistake as it was way too warm. 56 degrees can be a little nippy if the humidity is high, but this morning the humidity was quite low. Should have paid more attention to the weather.

I tried partially unzipping the jacket, but the wind kept blowing the zipper the rest of the way down which left the jacket loosely flapping all over the place. I could have stopped and taken it off but my bag was pretty full and I wasn't motivated enough to jam it in, so I just left it zipped all the way up and got drenched in sweat.

Yikes! Next time educate her small child that her mom's a clueless idiot. Mid 50's this morning with a pretty stiff headwind. Winds are supposed to be gusting to 30mph by this evening - hopefully behind me!

Mid-60's for the morning commute. I had to modify my route a bit since they are re-paving a portion of my primary route. Otherwise, a nice ride. The ride home could be a different story. It's supposed to be sunny and 78-degrees today, but very windy. 20-30 mph winds with gusts over 40 mph!!! And, of course, it will be a headwind so...

No ride today, there's an hour of daddy daycare required at lunchtime

WOW! Thanks for posting.

25-35 mph sustained winds (head winds) for the entire ride home tonight. Temperature on this morning's ride in was 63; ride home was 55. Talk about a tough ride. 11 miles would usually take me 35 - 40 minutes. Tonight was 53 minutes. I got my workout.

Another nice uneventful commute to work today. The temp was 48f degrees when I left the house, and there was some fog in a lot of places.

Oh man...a beautiful morning with a tough ride in. 61F / 16C was a dark but pleasant morning.

Here's the hard part: After assembling my brand new repair stand last night, I hoist my bike up only to discover that the rear derailer cable had stopped responding...no idea how this happened and why it happened just at that moment. Turns out it was snapped right at the handlebar shifter. So I'm stuck on a Monday night before work with three gears to choose from up front. Of course I rode in but it was tough on those hills.

Plan is to hit a bike shop on the way home either for a repair or at least a cable and try to repair it myself.

Dodged a bullet this morning. I mistakenly left my expensive U-lock, cable and keys unlocked at the bike rack when I left work yesterday afternoon. I did this one other time, and someone stole the lock and keys overnight. I got lucky this time, and they were sitting right where I left them when I got to work this morning. It would have been an expensive loss and hassle to replace all that stuff.

The last time this happened I started making a concerted effort to double-check all my gear before I leave work in the afternoon, but my job has been very stressful lately and it's making me absent-minded. Looks like I better refocus. My routine also got thrown off yesterday because a lot more of my coworkers have been bike commuting lately due to the nice weather. I normally lean my bike up against the rack and then fasten my lock and cable to rack before packing up to go, but there were so many other bikes on rack yesterday that I had to lean my bike in another spot, and that threw off my routine just enough to make me forget about the lock.

A little warmer at 60F this morning. Some overnight showers made for wet roads, but not enough to kick up any spray. The sunrise was quite nice, but I didn't find a decent vantage point for a picture.

A little chilly (46F) when I left the house, but a really nice commute.

I was on the fence this morning when I woke up. By the time I had finished the 1 mile walk with the dogs I had talked myself into going by bike and dealing with the one bottleneck area we have at the moment. One of hte major bridges going into the city is closed down (scheduled for the rest of the month) and the other two (not counting the highway) are getting super backed up, leaving me really with only 1 way to get into the city on a bike (the other one has a sidewalk I have used before, but right now there is a huge pipe on it as they try and pump water from one side of the river to the other). The bike lane on the bridge I ride over is blocked by another big pump, right where traffic bottlenecks. I had to be a bit aggressive getting over into the traffic lane. That was the only downside. The rest of the ride was fantastic.

It showered right before I left, and the sunrise was beautiful. I forgot my helmet and gloves. Temperature is terrific, in the 60s this morning, around 80 this afternoon. I am riding a century not this weekend, but next weekend. In lieu of a 50-60 miler beforehand, I am going to try and bike commute everyday until next wed, then give myself 2 days to rest up. I'm slightly worried about the distance, as the longest ride I have done in the past few weeks was a 40 miler.