Roughly 15 weeks until Valentines Day when there is typically enough daylight at 5 PM to ride all the way home, assuming the bike path isn’t too icy or snow covered.
I am going to keep riding my bike into work whenever the bike path is passable or at least it’s not too cold. I’m not going to beat the shit out of my bike this time riding on the path if it’s totally covered with frozen ice and snow, though I may take the Delmar Bypass and Corning’s Hill, which is better now that they repaved it.
The nights will be dark heading down to the local bus. I have two fairly new front lights for my bike and I ordered extra rear-lights for use on my bike. I want to remain visible as possible to other motorists well after dark, and will probably add more reflective tape to the bike this weekend if I stop by the hardware store.
Not looking forward to taking the slow, and late local bus home, but there is no need to rush home to a dark and cold apartment all winter long. I’d rather just take the bus rather then drive my big jacked up truck back and forth to the office all of the time. I don’t know, I’ll take it day by day. Certainly not having the express bus does limit options, but I’m not ready to give up riding or avoiding driving whenever possible.
