Tales from today's commute....

[summerdays]

Uneventful commutes today, except for quickly popping into John Lewis for some foundation from Clarins. The two girls on the counter were quite interested in cycling and they were quite taken by my Mio computer. Sounded like at least one of them would have liked to cycle to work but that they have to wear full make up being on a beauty counter. It appeared that they have showers for staff but they weren't convinced.

Hugs
Archeress x

My eldest worked at JL as Christmas temp, and she says there is a shower there, and I know they had lockers.

 

[PJ79LIZARD]

Fantastic commute home sunshine all the way, light wind, only downside was getting forced into nettles by passing oncoming cars squeezing me towards the hedgerows, someone needs to cut them back, they take up about a quarter of the already narrow lanes!

 

[ianrauk]

So lucky today.
Left home this morning a little later as I was waiting for the rain to stop. Left home when it was that misty drizzle but it soon stopeed. Got about 4 miles in and the roads were dry and so was the rest of the commute.

Rained most of the day whilst at work, sometimes quite heavy.

Come half 5 and time for the commute home it had stopped raining. Damp roads but the rain kept off.

Lucky, lucky bleeder.

 

[kevin_cambs_uk]

How does the rain know its 5 o'clock?

Seriously, when does summer start, with the long warm evenings and barbecues?

 

[MickL]

Pleasant ride home. Only doing a half commute as I'm coming back from injury (torn Achilles tendon.). Parked my car 5miles from work. Some really good drivers tonight. Few holding back. Seems maybe the message has gotten through since I last did daily commutes.

 

[MisterStan]

Had to take a detour to drop off some medication for a colleague who's been signed off for a while, so 26 miles of wind and rain. Stopped for 10 mins to have a chinwag, big mistake, really cooled off and was hard work to get the legs going again for the last 6 miles.

Really could do with a few weeks of dry and calm weather please!

 

[GrasB]

A nice easy ride to work as there was bit of water about this morning. A number of complaints from motorists as I rode round huge puddles, none of which wanted to drive through the said puddles.

 

[robjh]

Some enjoyable commutes this week. I've been commuting into Coventry from near Southam which is to the SE (usually I stay on the W side), and have had a change of scenery (with a few good, if short, hills), as well as a strong NW wind that has seen me flying home at the end of the day - 19.2 mph average over 14 miles on Wednesday evening.

 

[double_dd]

I had a double decker bus tailing me about a metre from my back wheel trying to force me over. So I stopped and told him where to go. Too dangerous

 

[MickeyBlueEyes]

Joined the 6000 mile club this morning Right that's enough jubilation, head down, 6001....6002....6003....6004...6005...

 

[kevin_cambs_uk]

Well after last night soaking could not be arsed with it all again so got the bus.
The weather is just rubbish again

 

[Archeress]

Some enjoyable scr with a building site dumper truck up hill along the dualed Highwood Lane

Hugs
Archeress x

 

[MisterStan]

Well after last night soaking could not be arsed with it all again so got the bus.
The weather is just rubbish again

I did the same today! The weather has ground me down this week.

 

[TeeQue]

Well it's taken a couple more months but I think I am now ready for my first ever commute by bike tomorrow!

I've brought clothes in with me today to leave here along with shower gel and a towel so I think I'm set.

I'm a little worried about nutrition; do you guys generally commute "fasted" or do you shovel some breakfast down before you leave? I think I'm going to try and squeeze in a cup of tea and a couple of slices of toast before heading off.

I'll update you all tomorrow with details of how I got on (and if I managed to stay awake the whole day after cycling in!).

Well I've done it and am now officially a cycle commuter (I assume I can claim that after doing it once?!).

18.4 miles with an average speed of 14.5mph (quite a hilly route though).

Only managed one slice of toast with my cup of tea before leaving because we ran out of butter but felt pretty good to be fair.

Showered at work and now sat at my desk with a cup of tea feeling much better than I usually do at this time.

Fortunately being Friday it means I've got a bacon sandwich on the way mid morning so that should perk me up a bit and as I also knock off early on a Friday I think I'm going to try a slightly longer route home taking in a bit of the "From Clee to Heaven" Audax I've entered in August.

For all of you that were in the same boat as me (talking about cycling to work for over a year but not actually doing it) I urge you to give it a go, I think it's definitely going to become a regular occurrence for me.

 

[martinclive]

I did the same today! The weather has ground me down this week.

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