It’s close.\u00a0 So close I can almost taste the road salt splashing in my face.<\/p>\n
Bike commuting season seems to be darn near here.<\/p>\n
I didn’t start until mid-June in 2007, because that was the earliest I could get my bike working.<\/p>\n
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.\u00a0 Still and all, it was a great biking season for me; from April 20-somethingth until early October.\u00a0 It felt great<\/em>.<\/p>\n This year?\u00a0 The ice is mostly off the roads; the daytime highs are in the forties and fifties.\u00a0 The morning lows are still a tad <\/em>chilly, and it looks like we’re in for a four-or-five day rainy stretch starting this weekend…<\/p>\n …but I don’t know that I care.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n Just saying – I’m pretty excited about this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It’s close.\u00a0 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 […]<\/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-4406","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\/4406","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=4406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4406\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}