Another ride to work

and home again too :-)

No National Ride to Work Breakfast today but I rode anyway. Good to leave the Suburb home though.

Today I went the "medium" route both ways. It frustrates me that I have to literally stop and wait until I get a break in traffic to make a dash past one house to get from the exit of a subdivision to the beginning of a bike path (where it meets the Monon Trail). No sidewalk, nothing, past that one house. Luckily, there is a stop light a quarter mile away and when it changes you get a break in the traffic. And you dash. Other than that there are a couple of other places where there are 100 yards where a bike path would be nice but the traffic isn't nearly so bad. Patience works. I'm generally not in THAT big of a hurry. I can wait thirty seconds or so for that break in traffic.

On the way home I had a pretty stiff headwind. On the way to work I was just pokey. It took me about 37 minutes each way (its about 8.5 miles - or 13.1 mph).