COMMUTER CHALLENGE (Page 3)

I rode Friday, giving me 6 for the month.

Yup, and having only one gear certainly makes it worse!

Typically for me, the morning wind is insignificant (< 8mph), but I've had 17-20mph sustained on the way home which has been a mix of cross/head wind. I share my commuting between my fixed gear (with parachute panniers) and my tri bike. Mon, I was on the FG, but took the tri bike the other two this week. It really sucks grinding out 12-13mph on a bike that's geared for 19mph @ 90 rpm.

I rode a little yesterday with a guy (on a P2C) who was doing "wind" repeats. We don't have much for hills around here, so this is how he does his strength training. 

Happy commuting.

I'm hopping in here, with a twist if you don't mind.  I work from home 3 days a week, so that keeps my commuting down.  But yesterday I went car-free all day... did all of my errands/running around town by bike or foot.  I live in a small town, and I live fairly close to most things, but this was a real mindset shift and I want to keep it up.  It can be challenging, given that I have 3 kids and they will need to be active participants in this, but I think that it's worth it.

So my plan is to commit to being car-free 2 days a week until the snow flies.  For me, that probably adds up to 40 car-free days (which takes me through the end of September... things get a little iffy after that, but I'll try to keep it up longer if possible).