Memories Of Cold Weather Commuting

I'm not talking about Florida cold weather commuting either. The memories I'm referring to consist of sub freezing temps and lots of snow. I first started commuting by bike while attending college in Spokane, Wa. Although I don't have any images of my actual commute it looked a little something like this.

And here was my route. Oh how I miss commuting in the snow.

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Bike Commuting On Hold

I’m reluctantly putting my bike commuting on hold. I was just starting to get into a good routine and really starting to enjoy it but, I don’t want to jeopardize my running. With the Goofy race less than two months away and my training program pushing my legs to their limits every weekend I’m afraid that I’d be asking too much of them with an additional 24 mile a day bike commute. Besides, I think my wife would kill me if I was unable to run with her for her first Marathon.

Even though I’m planning on running the Gasparilla marathon in February I should be able to resume my commuting after the Goofy race. So why would I be able to commute while training for the Gasparilla when I can’t do it while training for the Goffy? The Goofy race consists running a total of 39.3 miles in a two day period, a half marathon followed by a full marathon the very next day. The Gasparill is just a marathon, that’s it. 26.2 miles and I’m done. This means I’ll only be doing 1 training run on the weekends so my legs won’t be trashed come Monday morning.

Whish us luck as I try to complete my first Goofy race and Theresa completes her first marathon!

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Random Commute Pics

Here are a few photos of my commute home tonight. I had taken a lot more but for some damn reason my phone decided it was only going to keep these two. I'll post some more later.




Some canal on my way home


Where did the bike lane go?

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My Commute Route

I thought I'd share my commute route.

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Florida Coast to Coast Tour

The other day I was having an exceptionally good commute home from work and started day dreaming about what would happen if I just kept riding. Well, I didn't keep riding but I did get another idea. I thought, "I wonder if I could ride from a Gulf Coast beach to an Atlantic Beach". I practically obsessed over it for a few hours wondering what it would be like, what would go wrong, what route would I take, how long would it take...

That night I mentioned the ride to Theresa and she thought it sounded really exciting. So, We're going to start planning this Florida coast to coast tour. Initially I looked up the straightest route from the gulf coast to the Atlantic coast which would have taken us along the same road for over 90% of the trip. Fortunately my man Karlos, the Naked Indian, is very good at planning routes like these and he's offered to work up a route for us. The only stipulation was that the entire route had to be on pavement. Why all pavement? Theresa will be on a full on road bike, not like my cyclocross bike, and I don't think she'd be too happy riding through sugar sand.

Stay tuned for more details...

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