up at 0500, out the door with the fixie at 0530. Ride to my volunteer check point by 0630 to count riders. I was stationed at the Princess Cruise Lines corporate offices in Valencia, CA. They had a contest running with other local offices to see how many people would ride in. I stuck around until 0930 and signed in a total of 13 bikers. Not a lot, but not bad either since many of them rarely ride and took this as an opportunity to get out and exercise. At 10:00 I caught the commuter train into work. Cool day.

0600: On your left! sigh
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0615: SUVs are pretty. Must....put....down.......checkbook. What Would Jesus Drive?
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0625: work it, girl.
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0630: these two were waiting for me to show up. They rode about 8-10 miles one way, and don't usually ride. Way to go, ladies! (I think the one on the left likes me).
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0700: She didn't bike to work. But she did have her morning smoke. Sad.
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later!

Thanks for the report. My cousin lives in Thousand Oaks, and your pics remind me of some good rides we’ve had out there.

- Chris

That last picture! Wow, looks like the usual frequenter of the "smoking porch" aka "The front entrance" to the building where I work.

I got up this morning and rode a roundabout route to work to hit 6 commuter stations set up by the local bike club. At the first one I realized they weren't tallying riders who went past, so my attempts to pad the stats were useless. But I got a lot of free water bottles and energy bars out of it.

I didn't want to discourage any rookies out there by zipping past them, but man - some people were going slow.

Thanks for the pics!