It’s close. So close I can almost taste the road salt splashing in my face.
Bike commuting season seems to be darn near here.
I didn’t start until mid-June in 2007, because that was the earliest I could get my bike working.
Last year, I was raring to go on April 1 – but the weather, you may recall, didn’t start cooperating until the third week in April; we even had a snowstorm in the second week of the month. Still and all, it was a great biking season for me; from April 20-somethingth until early October. It felt great.
This year? The ice is mostly off the roads; the daytime highs are in the forties and fifties. The morning lows are still a tad chilly, and it looks like we’re in for a four-or-five day rainy stretch starting this weekend…
…but I don’t know that I care. The bike’s in the shop for a tune-up as we speak; with any luck, I’ll tee up this year’s biking season Thursday morning. And if the weather doesn’t totally close in, the weekend looks like a gorgeous one to kick off with a ride out to The Patriot, one of my favorite weekend diversions last year.
Just saying – I’m pretty excited about this.
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