This morning I decided that from now on, unless I *really* can’t, I will ride my bike to work every day.  No more of this I’m too tired or it’s too hot or I feel like wearing a skirt today.  From now on (or at least until it’s no longer bike-riding weather–i.e. til it’s real, real cold) only the following reasons are acceptable for not riding to work:

• I have a legitimate meeting to go to that I can’t ride to, or hitch a ride with someone else going to that same meeting.
• I am injured (insert requisite “poo-poo” for Annie).  Not sore knees or other various muscles, either.  Riding tends to help the pain in those cases and I know it.
• I’m [really] sick.  And if I’m too sick to be riding to work, I probably shouldn’t be going to work anyway.
• Bad weather.  Not it’s too hot or it might rain, but real bad weather.  Acceptable forms of bad weather include: thunder/lightning storms, hail, extreme wind and (if I’m still riding this late in the year) snow.

That said, it was hotter than hades this morning.  It’s hot here in the summer, that’s a given, but typically it’s not THAT HOT at 8 a.m.  Well, today on my ride (I even left early) it was THAT HOT.  But as I said last week, I did it anyway.  Not such a fan of arriving to work as a sweaty pig, though.  May need to start wearing different clothing and packing work clothes to change into.  Whatever I need to do to make sure I ride to work.  Because there’s no reason (except for the above bullets) that I shouldn’t be riding to work every day.