This past Thursday was the annual Bike to Work Day, the first one since the COVID-19 pandemic canceled just about all mass events in all the cities. Yours truly has been working from home more or less ever since, and really enjoyed the luxury of making up my own 'bike to work' route.
Predictably, the route involved some gratuitous hills along with the inevitable ones. It isn't so much that I like to climb as there is something psychologically less defeating in electing to ride up a hill I know I'll have to suffer through than having to go up one because it's on the only possible way home.  |
| Some analgesic views along the bike commute from my front door to the rear one. |
And, since my neck of the woods seems to consist of hills that only range from ouchy to murderously ouchy... I'd just as well opt for the latter to get more bang for the ouch. If you weren't a masochist before taking up cycling, taking up cycling seems a sure way of making a masochist out of you.  |
| San Marcos Civic Center pit stop on Bike To Work Day 2022. |
Tho, on Bike to Work Day, the masochistic pain is more bearable than usual since there are many more people out on bike to commiserate with. And, there are bike-commuting-oriented pit stops all around town manned with cheerful people who can't wait to feed and ply you with nice (and very useful) swags. My pit stop this year was at the San Marcos Civic Center, manned by the lovely folks of the city's Park and Recreation Department. Thank you so much!  |
| Wheeee! |
If you rode your bike to work last Thursday and found it enjoyable, why not do more of it through out the year? It's so nice to spend more time outside and away from the computer screen, getting to know the town a little better (so many little nice things are missed when you speed by in an automobile), and save quite a bit of gas money and your area's air quality in the process.
