It’s been so nice here at night the past few nights, makes for great riding. My normal commute home is just under 14 miles. Last night it was so nice that I decided to take a long detour and turn it into a 20 mile ride with a stop at Waffle House about the halfway point. All told, I put in about 26 miles yesterday with 6.49 of them coming before work.. the rest after work. Amusingly, the 6.49 miles before work netted me a 13.1mph average speed.. by the time I got home (after riding the 20 miles) my average speed had actually increased to 14.0 so apparently I was hauling ass riding home. Needless to say, 65 degrees @ 3am is wonderful riding weather. It’s also nice because traffic is significantly less at that time of the morning. Amusingly, at like 4:30am on a side road somewhat near my house, I actually passed another person on a bicycle going the opposite direction. Douchebag didn’t have a helmet or a light of any sort… on top of that, he was wearing dark clothing. At least he was riding on the road and not on the sidewalk like most fuckwads around here like to do.
On a somewhat similar note, now that the weather has gotten better I’m seeing a lot more cyclists commuting around town during the afternoon. It’s definitely neat to ride downtown and pass 5 or 10 cyclists riding around various places. At least I’m not the only cycle commuter around here. However, it seems that most of them don’t ride 14-15 miles to and from work. Most of them seem to live in the general vicinity of downtown so they don’t have to ride as far. Still cool to see, though.
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