My Morning Commute

[Powerful Pete]

@jrenaut 91417 wrote:

I got about 80% of the way to work this morning before I realized I forgot my laptop. Since pretty much my entire job occurs on that laptop, being at work without it is not terribly productive.

Good thing I bike to work and it’s gorgeous out, otherwise I might have been upset.

Admit it, you did it on purpose to enjoy the weather (nothing wrong with that, by the way)!

[jrenaut]

@Powerful Pete 91425 wrote:

Admit it, you did it on purpose to enjoy the weather (nothing wrong with that, by the way)!

Actually this was supposed to be a light day so I could maybe get one extra ride to the kids’ camp this week.

[Powerful Pete]

Out of curiosity, what is your weekly mileage? Commuting and otherwise?

Am curious – open question to others also.

[dasgeh]

Another awesome morning. After being a bit chilly yesterday, I put on a long sleeve over my ss when I left the house. Crazy. I was also meeting people at the Metro 29 Diner, which meant biking straight up, basically as soon as I left the house. That was a new feeling. I took Lorcom to get to the trail — that uphill is no joke, but overall, it was nice. I think I’d even recommend that route on days when the trail through that park is clear (i.e. not in the winter, and not on days after a storm).

@Powerful Pete 91431 wrote:

Out of curiosity, what is your weekly mileage? Commuting and otherwise?

Am curious – open question to others also.

This deserves its own thread.

[cyclingfool]

@Powerful Pete 91431 wrote:

Out of curiosity, what is your weekly mileage? Commuting and otherwise?

Am curious – open question to others also.

@dasgeh 91439 wrote:

This deserves its own thread.

+1

But in the meantime, I’ll play along here: 75 miles total commuting in a 5 day week. Tack on another 5-10 per week during grad school to get to and from class a couple times. Sadly, I don’t get much non-commute riding in, usually just a few miles with cyclingfool, jr. in tow in his Burley trailer. Longer rides like the 77 miles RT to Leesburg on my birthday or overnight trips on the C&O are “a couple times a year” occurrences at present.

[jrenaut]

Weekly mileage gets its own thread.

[Powerful Pete]

Thanks for starting the new thread, apologies for [slightly] derailing this one!

[jrenaut]

@Powerful Pete 91456 wrote:

Thanks for starting the new thread, apologies for [slightly] derailing this one!

It shows that you’re new here that you bother to apologize for derailing a thread.

[Powerful Pete]

[ShawnoftheDread]

Yeah, derailing threads is what we do here.

So how come no one on The Walking Dead rides a bike?

[Arlingtonrider]

Keep in mind that avg. weekly mileage is a seasonal thing around here. It tends to go up significantly between January 1 and March 20.

[cyclingfool]

@Powerful Pete 91456 wrote:

Thanks for starting the new thread, apologies for [slightly] derailing this one!

Are you a front derailleur or a rear derailleur? :rolleyes:

[dkel]

@ShawnoftheDread 91469 wrote:

Yeah, derailing threads is what we do here.

So how come no one on The Walking Dead rides a bike?

I’ve so totally thought about this many times, particularly in the dusky, twilight hours on the trail. Spoooky!

[Powerful Pete]

It’s perfectly safe even if the undead ride. It takes them forever to clip and unclip from their pedals.

[ShawnoftheDread]

@Powerful Pete 91488 wrote:

It’s perfectly safe even if the undead ride. It takes them forever to clip and unclip from their pedals.

This explains a lot about most of my shoalers. But why do so many of the undead ride Cervelos?

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