Tales from today's commute....

[Supersuperleeds]

If I did 300 miles in a week the Mrs would serve the divorce papers, and I'd be on my knees.

I just get up early for work, leave the house for 6am, get to work 8:30 - 8:45 depending on which route I have taken. Normally home for 18:30.

Finished the week with 332.9 commuting miles (I know should have done an extra tenth!) and with a couple of evening pootles and a 40 miler this morning have broken 400 miles in a week for the first time.

 

[bicyclos]

Mileage down this week commuting, Had a stomach bug and had to take sick leave from work early on Wednesday morning and Thursday. Had no energy going into work on Friday, my legs felt like treacle. Going to service the bike this weekend and nothing else....

 

[paul04]

Really good ride in to work and back home. got 2 PB's on strava segments this morning, and even got a KOM+ 2 PB's on the way home, its a lot better when its quiet on the roads

 

[Deleted member 1258]

I just get up early for work, leave the house for 6am, get to work 8:30 - 8:45 depending on which route I have taken. Normally home for 18:30.

Finished the week with 332.9 commuting miles (I know should have done an extra tenth!) and with a couple of evening pootles and a 40 miler this morning have broken 400 miles in a week for the first time.

With a 8:00am start I'd need to be out about 5:30am which would mean being up about 4:30am, with a 4:45pm finish I'd be home about 7:15 pm and need to be back in bed about 10pm to get up 4:30am, by the end of the week I'd be falling asleep over my tea and at weekends I'd be just wanting to rest and recover for the next batch of commuting, and that does not take into account the fact that we work till we've finished so if we haven't finished before home time we carry on till the work is done, on a busy month end Friday it could mean we are not out before 5pm even though we are supposed to finish at 12:30, the Mrs would definitely serve the papers if I did that.

 

[HLaB]

Lol, on Friday evening I was in go slow mode and opted for a shared use path for the commute. At one point it was blocked by peds (fair enough they've every right). Hence I was only going walking pace and called a polite 'excuse me please' and a young woman turned to her boyfriend/husband/partner, 'see I told you'. Before she could even get her next words out he told her exactly that, 'he did say a polite excuse me and he's almost at a standstill

 

[Bill-H]

After yesterday's commute went wrong with chain coming off up a hill.I was chuffed to break six PB's on way in to work today
https://www.strava.com/activities/68618707

 

[HLaB]

Went one of my shorter routes to work this morning (the shortest one involves a school and a major rbt, so I tend to avoid that), it was a day for pull outs/ accross and 'must overtakes'.

 

[ianrauk]

So hot this morning.. phew..

And full of nobber nodders on bikes who have very little or no roadcraft/knowledge.

 

[Peter Armstrong]

Nice ride this morning, hit by a bus, nothing out of the ordinary.

 

[ianrauk]

Nice ride this morning, hit by a bus, nothing out of the ordinary.

C'mon, you know you can't leave it at that....

 

[Peter Armstrong]

Ha Ha just plodding along minding my own business, bus attempts a pass, he must have thought I disappeared once his mirrors passed me and started to turn in to soon. More of a light push on my side of arm/shoulder as at the point we would be doing the same sort of speed, like leaning on a wall but at 25 mph. I didn’t come off or even come close to.

 

[BSRU]

A busy weekend resulted in feeling very lethargic this morning, slept in and cycled in an hour later so only cycled 33km .
Will take the rest of the day easy so I can be back to normal energy levels for tomorrows predicted downpour.

 

[ianrauk]

Ha Ha just plodding along minding my own business, bus attempts a pass, he must have thought I disappeared once his mirrors passed me and started to turn in to soon. More of a light push on my side of arm/shoulder as at the point we would be doing the same sort of speed, like leaning on a wall but at 25 mph. I didn’t come off or even come close to.

ay 25mph? That sounds scary to me... glad to hear nothing more came of it.

 

[MickL]

little cooler today but muggy, meant to be very warm tonight on the way home with showers and thunder so looking forward to that tonight.

 

[Supersuperleeds]

Very misty morning, nice and cool with a slight breeze. Scalped a roadie going up a hill, think he was a bit shocked when fat bloke on a hybrid said morning and went on his way