National Bike to Work Day!

Happy Bike to Work Day!
How was your commute? I hope it was safe and fun.

The Greater Grand Rapids Bicycle Coalition hosted active commute week this week, and today about 15 local businesses offered pit stops for cyclists today.  I went to the one on the corner of Lake Drive and Diamond, thank you WMEAC!

It was sort of chilly today so I wore a long sleeve shirt with a cute polka dot scarf to keep warm. The scarf is KEY to keeping your neck warm on early morning rides. I was quite happy.

Tulips

Do rabbits eat tulips?  I noticed many stems on my ride in today without flowers. It's either that, or the flowers have all died.  It made me giggle to see all these stems lining the driveways of rich people's houses.....

I also noticed many steel valve covers to the water main lines in the street are missing. Is this due to scrap metal thieves? It's very dangerous for bikes, once removed these leave huge holes. There are many missing from Lake Drive and Lyon Street.

Many of these are missing in the streets of Grand Rapids, MI!!!!!

Active Commute Week

It's active commute week 2013. I guess I haven't blogged in a year. HA!

The bike ride in to work today was beautiful. It was 67 degrees and lovely. My commute is only 3.4 miles one way, but with all the running I've done for the past year, my quads feel every mile. I need to keep biking this summer to build up my quads and even out my leg strength. Having super strong hamstrings, and weak quads is not good....and it probably explains my knee pain. :(

I just bought a new pannier and a set of bike lights from Amazon.com. I can't wait for them to arrive. My pannier has two expandable sides, so when it's not in use, it's tiny and sits atop my bike rack.

I hope to make this a summer of bike commuting!

This is a picture of the pannier I ordered!