My wonderful wife just landed a sweet job at a university that is a few blocks from the one where I work, in the heart of Central Baltimore. We are both enormous fans of the MTA, and the #61 stops yards from our apartment building. But, as she understands and as I’m sure anyone who cycles would, once I get back on my bike after not riding [without crashing] since April 7th, there’s nothing that will stop me from cycling to work. Not that anything but bad ice did after the installation of my awesome fenders in December. Unless ElRo wants to take the bus, this means that I’ll get company for my commutes!
It used to be my “alone time”, but my wife and I happen to get along very well and enjoy each other’s company, enough to elicit gags at times from a few less happy people. But I rarely took the really long way home before because I wanted to get home to my favorite person. Rather than losing alone time that I don’t really care about, I view this more as getting to saunter-on-wheels home rather than mashing my way up Charles Street and University Parkway. The long way, the scenic way — they’re all ours for the taking.
And it’s fun to point out your favorite way to get to work and all the places to get coffee around there. A week or two before my crash, I was still in North Baltimore for a super-early meeting one Thursday. Afterward, Dan and I met up and took my relaxed way to work, parked in my office and enjoyed coffee/chocolate at Sofi’s. I talked his ear off about what’s around my job, etc. Bob wrote a nice post about this kind of fun last year.
Anyone else get regular company for their commutes?
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05.27.09 at 12:00 pm
Rantwick
Nope, I’m a loner on the commute and ride with the whole family on the weekend. I think I like it that way though, because when I want to ride in traffic I don’t want to have to worry about my partner or have them worry about me… I’m guessing your wife is pretty competent on the bike. I’m bringing my significant others into more road cycling, but it’s been a slow process thus far.
05.27.09 at 1:57 pm
Johnny
She never learned to drive a car but is very courageous in traffic. She rocks!
05.27.09 at 11:28 pm
Josh Keogh
I ride home with my fiance 4 days a week or so. Some days we ride down together too. Every once a while we ride home with another fellow worker until we part ways at Chestnut and Falls.
07.07.09 at 10:51 am
Daily Breather
I just started to commute last week. Not by choice, mind you. The car was in the shop longer than expected so I pulled the bike out of the basement Sunday afternoon to make a dry run to work and time it. Hampden to Towson, can’t be bad. A 7 minute car ride took me 60 min! My car takes these hills much better than my out of shape ass does. But Monday I knocked it down to 45 min and now it’s 35 min to work and 15 min home (the easy downhill part ).
But I have noticed that I feel better than ever and my head is not racing with “things to do”. I do enjoy the alone time in all of this. It’s a new chunk of time in my day that I didn’t have before. Good for my health too. York Rd., however, is not!
07.07.09 at 12:11 pm
Johnny
York IS scary that time of day — Charles above Coldspring, too. Kudos to you for sticking with it! That’s a nice ride:)
04.02.10 at 7:16 pm
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