Desultory bike commuting

[owlectomy]

So far I have only managed to bike commute three times in three weeks.

My criteria have been:

-Not in severe pain
-Not coming home after dark
-Reasonable weather
-No mechanical failures

I think that I have solved my saddle fit issues, just as I've come up on a week where I'm working two late nights and it's going to be thunderstorming the rest of the week.

(I will work up to cycling in the rain and darkness! But I feel like I need to grind up a few levels first, in RPG parlance. Also a rain jacket.)

I am enjoying it. It is nice to get some fresh air in the mornings and even with the traffic noise and honking it feels like time to myself more than riding the bus and having to listen to someone's cell phone argument.

I am not yet managing to beat the bus home, which is weird, because I can almost beat the bus home just walking (and, judiciously, jaywalking); it's just that the rush-hour traffic is awful on that avenue. I'll try a new route tonight, see how that goes.

If the weather clears up by the weekend I think I'll try going for a longer ride!