My Morning Commute

[83b]

My spouse seems quite pleased that she can now track me via my iPhone when I’m riding. For commutes she looks at Find My Friends to see where I am and can estimate my time of arrival pretty well. For longer weekend rides she can see when I’ve turned back toward home and can still come up with a pretty good estimate of when to expect me. When I don’t ride with a group, it seems to offer some psychic benefit that makes her less nervous about me going off alone for an indeterminate amount of time for a moderately risky activity.

If folks haven’t tried it, the app comes bundled with your iPhone and is pretty easy to set up. It does require both parties to be on apple devices though.

[KWL]

@Terpfan 100988 wrote:

Ditto. Although oddly the temperature seemed to plummet just north of OT on the MVT, which made no sense given it seemed a good 5-10 degrees cooler there than at my house which sits atop a big hill. It felt like high 50s at my house and yet high 40s right at beginning of Daingerfeld Island there.

Much like Olympia beer, “It’s the water.” I too noticed some spectacular temperature variations on the MVT tonight.

[dplasters]

Blehhhhhhhhhhhh sums it up nicely I think.

[jrenaut]

The best part about days like today is the looks I get from coworkers when they see the bike gear strewn about my cube to dry. “You RODE YOUR BIKE in this?” Uh, yeah. What else was I supposed to do, flap my arms and fly? Someone has to take the kids to school.

[Steve O]

Sleet stings

[jrenaut]

@Steve O 101061 wrote:

Sleet stings

That’s why I tell the kids to face the back when there’s precipitation.

[Drewdane]

Not this morning’s commute, but yesterday evening’s.

WTF?!? That weather wasn’t supposed to start for another two hours! I dressed for low sixties and dry!

Oh well, the hot shower when I got home felt nicer for it.

[Steve O]

@jrenaut 101051 wrote:

The best part about days like today is the looks I get from coworkers when they see the bike gear strewn about my cube to dry. “You RODE YOUR BIKE in this?” Uh, yeah. What else was I supposed to do, flap my arms and fly?

“You deal with traffic. I deal with weather.”

OR

“No such thing as bad weather…just bad gear.”

OR

“It’s ALWAYS a good day for a bike ride.”

[ronwalf]

@Drewdane 101086 wrote:

WTF?!? That weather wasn’t supposed to start for another two hours! I dressed for low sixties and dry!

I’ve been betting against the rain whenever the forecast called for <30% chance of precipitation, so I shouldn't have been all that surprised when the skies called my bluff last night.

[americancyclo]

@Supermau 101013 wrote:

I tried convincing my wife that I’m safer on the bike too, but she simply wasn’t having it. Virtually every commute I do is in the darkness but for some reason she was spooked about Thanksgiving eve.

Could be that the most drunk drivers are out on thanksgiving eve

[Supermau]

@americancyclo 101121 wrote:

Could be that the most drunk drivers are out on thanksgiving eve

As a matter of fact we passed one (pulled over) coming off the parkway into Old Town Alexandria!

[lordofthemark]

My first commute in the month of December, ever. First indoor HDCC that I have attended. Many puddles.

[Crickey7]

@lordofthemark 101152 wrote:

My first commute in the month of December, ever. First indoor HDCC that I have attended. Many puddles.

February is the month that tries bike commuters’ souls. When you will complete entire rides home without seeing another cyclist. When you make sure your phone is charged before you hit the trail, so that if you crash and hurt yourself, you can get help before the coyotes arrive.

[hozn]

This is true. Dec is still basically Fall. In January things start to get real and February sucks out your soul. But days start to feel longer finally in March — which is still frickin’ cold! — and then it’s April when you can unpack the warmer-weather gear again. And then it’s summer.

I am excited to get back on the bike / back from vacation. The solitude of winter riding truly is wonderful. Too bad about the cold.

[dasgeh]

@hozn 101205 wrote:

This is true. Dec is still basically Fall. In January things start to get real a

Yeah, there were definitely some days last month that got real. Which means we’re due for a nice February, right?

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