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My feeling is that MIT, or perhaps those maniacal weirdos over at Carnegie Mellon, are secretly testing cloaking-enabled sportswear on Memorial Bridge. Despite the street lights, car lights, and my retina-searing mega light, a young lady came out of freaking nowhere last night doing what appeared to be wind sprints in some suspiciously light-absorbing clothing. My immediate reaction was “holy $hit temporal rift ahoy,” but then I realized that the amorphous, semi-visible blob rapidly approaching me was just an overly aggressive college grad with a penchant for running on the left side into oncoming traffic. MIT may also be testing new mega-boost hormonal therapies that greatly increases aggressiveness in Washington’s type-a gene pool. I don’t know, I’m not a scientitian.

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This is so to say “baller,” but they will need to do it right to avoid black-ice fueled craziness. Studded tires – yep!

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All great suggestions – particularly the 50/50 white vinegar and water.

DO NOT use a sachet full of allspice and clove – this will just make your coworkers think that the pumpkin bread that you brought in is poisoned.

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@vern 98456 wrote:

And this morning the shorts issue didn’t come up because there simply weren’t any riders out there. I guess a combo of the temps and Halloween kept a lot of people home. I enjoyed the open space and thought it felt really good after my body warmed up a couple miles in. I wore two layers, booties, bandanna on my head, and only liner gloves under my regular cycling gloves – and that all worked out just right.

I proudly sport shorts down to freezing or so – I was born with this leg hair, I will damn well make use of it.

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@hozn 98176 wrote:

This happens regularly. Every morning multiple times on my westbound ride, in fact.

While I know that I for one am appreciating how you are elevating this discussion, it would probably be an even more awesome contribution if you were to, say, ride more at night.

I’m usually not bothered by the blinktastic lights that I see FREQUENTLY on the W&OD – but the guy with the green and red mega flash flights needs to be stopped and walloped with a walleye. Firstly, Christmas is still a ways away. And secondly, I think your green light might actually just be a green laser pointer with a fisheye lens on it.

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@Supermau 93962 wrote:

Are those the so called ” pathletes”. The most risky passers of them all from my experience…a lot of them anyway.

Yes and don’t forget the supremely annoying, but incredibly rare, “penpathletes,” i.e. that guy who does interval sprints up and down the hill by the I-66 overpass on the Custis, randomly stopping and doing push-ups at the top of the hill in the middle of the trail. I have only seen this on one occasion – had to savor it.

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Wonderful morning – but got caught in a gaggle of joggers by the Lincoln Memorial – is this a daily thing? If so, it needs more hot pants.

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Seven Corners is an ungodly wasteland of poor planning, this is most welcome!

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Yeah – I’ve run into this guy – Navy something or another attire and lots of sweat. Nice guy, but we need to teach him more words.

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@VikingMariner 89108 wrote:

I’ve seen this guy do that a lot. I’m going to take a picture of him next time and post it online.

Permission to the buzz the tower? Ghost Rider permission denied.

He is simply trying to enforce a non-existent no-fly zone on his 50th parallel. Since this is reciprocal, feel free to slow down, stop, extend arm thusly, and wait for him to pass.

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I’m not sure if I ever stop eating during the day – it is more of a grazing affair with random bursts of heavy grazing. But I never eat before getting on my bike in the morning, it helps to keep my voice scratchy and weird – THOU SHALT NOT PASS.

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@OneEighth 88300 wrote:

MPD usually wear light blue polo shirts

White shirts are definitely Secret Service. They were doing laps around the Washington Monument last week, which was odd considering the plethora of other spots that they could rack up some miles. Perhaps it was a security exercise…or a very orderly bike derby…who knows.

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@dkel 88259 wrote:

I looked outside this afternoon and saw all that rain, then got excited and put on my awesome rain gear…just in time for the rain to stop! I was hot, steamy, and miserable all the way home. Dang it!

Stripped off that rain gear after maybe 5-10 minutes – 1 cup of grossness contained therein.

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Tried this, terribly uncomfortable…and smelly.

@cvcalhoun 88015 wrote:

Now to wear toe socks under toe shoes, for the ultimate in dorkiness!

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How the hell did I miss those? Ophthalmologist – here I come…

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