Tales from today's commute....

[Ganymede]

oooooooooooooooooooooooaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhh I'm so tiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiirrrrrrrrrrrrredddddddddddddd.........

It's just been brought to bear upon me how a hard day's physical labour impacts on your home commute. Mostly my days are a mixture of sitting and running about, but the past two days I've been sorting, labelling and moving a storeroom, including rushing around B+Q for supplies etc. Have to drive in tomorrow to pick up stuff, all the way to London and back, so I'll still be tired! Wooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

I've got Friday's legs every day! It doesn't put me off though.

I did a lumpy 74 miles on Sunday, I've had Friday legs both days this week so far.

 

[BSRU]

Just a 33km commute in this morning and it felt like hard work.
Unfortunately the pain this morning was all self inflicted, "late"(for me) family celebration last night and no paracetamol left this morning.

On the plus side, the heavy rain forecast for my commute in passed by quickly and was long gone by the time I got up.

 

[BSRU]

Came across a suicidal salmon cyclist this morning.
In the link below the salmon cyclist was riding the wrong way down the crappy "cycle path" on the left in the picture.
On seeing me they decided to switch from the "cycle lane" in to the main lane using the gap between the traffic islands.
They didn't bother looking behind before they swerve across the road but fortunately the driver of the bus he almost ended up underneath was paying attention.

http://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.56...ata=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1s1B90n040e6fFWaD9LcsRXg!2e0

 

[MisterStan]

had my first puncture on my GatorSkins this morning - the rear tyre (which until recently was the front tyre - new tyre went on the front) which has done about 6000 miles. Gutting to watch all the scalps we'd collected come past looking smug. Then got to look smug ourselves as we re-passed them! Despite being so out of practice, it was a relatively quick change too.

 

[Supersuperleeds]

Rain was coming down like stair rods this morning at 5am, so I rolled over and went back to sleep. Still managed just shy of 22 miles, but by far my shortest commute to work in a long time

 

[MickeyBlueEyes]

Rain was coming down like stair rods this morning at 5am, so I rolled over and went back to sleep. Still managed just shy of 22 miles, but by far my shortest commute to work in a long time

Yep, same here, although I still got up and went in a bit earlier.

Had an autumn feel about the ride this morning what with lights flashing away and the grim weather. Still, can't complain though, it was warm enough and it beats sitting in a car!

 

[Exile]

Totally uneventful commute to work today. At least it almost was. Just as I'm turning in to work I found out first hand that greasy roads and cornering do not mix.

Now missing some skin from my left elbow, but other than chewed up bar tape on that side the bike seems fine

Reckon I'll be taking it easy on the way home, though. I'm sure I'll notice more niggling aches as the day goes on.

 

[fossyant]

Missed the rain. Gave a tow to a lass down the length of the A34. Had to be careful as it was covered in diesel. Fairly sure it was a squad rider though.

Got passed by a tool on a hybrid last night. Total loon in traffic. Forced his way onto a roundabout then jumped two sets of lights.

 

[Hop3y]

This mornings commute was a breeze compared to last nights nail/tyre disaster..

 

[martint235]

Completely soaked!! Now attempting to get kit to some resemblance of dry ready for the commute home. Would also appear my new smiley friend is a fair weather commuter

 

[lip03]

Getting on the train I notice an old girl struggling to get a fully kitted out spesh sirrus onto the carriage, so I went and helped her in with it and noticed that she was clearly touring, so I asked where she was off to, she is meeting friends at st pancras and from there they are cycling to paris to celebrate 50 years since they were P.E students together, just shows that age is but a number! If they were students 50 years ago that makes her at least 65-70 GO ON GIRL!

 

[kevin_cambs_uk]

Weather forecast was a joke
It's lovely sunshine

Rubbish

 

[MisterStan]

Weather forecast was a joke
It's lovely sunshine

Rubbish

Did you bus it this morning?

 

[kevin_cambs_uk]

Did you bus it this morning?

I did

Wasted 6 quid!

The drenching downpour never occurred!