Last year, I biked to work most of the summer.\u00a0 It was a great thing; it had an almost immediate and very dramatic effect on my health – mental and physical – and generally improved my attitude about most things.<\/p>\n
Of course, by “Summer”, I mean “from about June 15 to mid-September.\u00a0 The kids’ school situations made it difficult to ride during the school year.\u00a0 Last year, anyway.<\/p>\n
This year, one way or another, things are shaping up much better; due to changes in kids’ schedules and levels of responsibility, I can reasonably expect to be able to hit the road for my half-hour ride early enough to make it in by 8:30, grab a quick shower, and be working in plenty of time.<\/p>\n
And since this week is the kids’ spring break, I figured in a fit of optimism that I mght be able to kick the season off this week.<\/p>\n
But while I do know people who ride year-round, and might try it myself when the kids move out ( Ooof.\u00a0 Maybe next week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Last year, I biked to work most of the summer.\u00a0 It was a great thing; it had an almost immediate and very dramatic effect on my health – mental and physical – and generally improved my attitude about most things. Of course, by “Summer”, I mean “from about June 15 to mid-September.\u00a0 The kids’ school […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biking","category-mitch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2361\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}in about three years, two months and fifteen days<\/strike>), I gotta confess – waking up and flipping on the weather on April 3 and seeing 25 degrees<\/em> is a bit of a deterrent.<\/p>\n