It was a short commute week this week. I rode to work all three days. I rode home in a light rain on Monday, but the heavy stuff didn’t show up until after I was home. It was 39 degrees with fog this morning, but warmed to a sunny 68 degrees with no wind this afternoon, a beautiful afternoon for a ride home.
2011 days ridden to work: 199
2011 commuting mileage: 4864.6
Work commute route
I took off on the Corsa this morning and did my Crowley Metric Century route. That has to be the slowest 63 miles I’ve ever ridden. I was riding at an easy pace anyway because of my bronchitis, and ended up doing the entire ride against the wind. I checked the forecast this morning, but saw no mention of a cold north wind blasting in at noon. So, my timing ended up perfect. I rode south against the south wind, then turned around and rode north against the north wind.
I ended up with 63 miles even. My average speed was: so slow I ain’t going to post it here.
Crowley Metric Century route
It wasn’t a good bike commute week for me. Last week’s severe head cold turned into the week’s severe bronchitis. I rode to work Monday, but wheezed and hacked so bad that I took 3 days off the bike. I missed really nice riding weather Tuesday and Wednesday. Wednesday evening, a front came in and it was chilly and windy yesterday. I rode to work today, still hacking pretty badly. Not much fun.
2011 days ridden to work: 196
2011 commuting mileage: 4791.1
Work commute route
I rode to work four days this week, Monday through Thursday, but drove today. I came down with a cold that just got worse as the week went, and felt bad enough this morning I decided that spending a hour pedaling in the 39 degree morning air wasn’t in my best interest.
This is the second year in a row that I’ve gotten a really bad cold that came on slowly, starting three days after I got my flu shot. It was the only cold I had last year. I may need to reconsider that flu shot next year.
Work commute route
I rode to work all five days this week. It was a windy week, and the 28 degree temperature on the ride to work this morning was the first freeze of the fall. I’m a bit faster on the Xstream than on the Stratus XP, but with this week’s wind, I certainly wasn’t setting any speed records. I’m getting the Xstream dialed in pretty well now, and am really enjoying commuting on it.
2011 days ridden to work: 190
2011 commuting mileage: 4643.8
The Xstream’s commuting setup.
Here was the old Xstream setup.
Work commute route