Earlier this week I told you about my commuting woes, and how I'm attempting to rearrange my life to fix them. Here's how things have shaken out.On Monday, the day I wrote the post, I got up at my usual time but did my workout before I went in at 10, then I left work at 7. The commute in was the same as ever - about 30 minutes - but the commute home through the rain took about an hour. (People out here freak out over any kind of precipitation...rain results in an "OMG, strange water falls from the sky" attitude that always mucks things up.)
But then, Tuesday and Wednesday, I did the same thing, and my commutes home were about 30 minutes each. Success! Not only that, but a colleague informed me about traffic.com, a website that analyzes current traffic incidents and shows you the fastest route at that time. Genius! I still have trouble believing cutting through Georgetown (which I've never seen in an uncongested state, since the roads are so narrow) would ever be an efficient way to get home, but still...it's a handy resource for quickly finding alternate routes when the Beltway is crazy.
The morning workouts have been going better than I anticipated. Not my best workouts ever, but so far I haven't felt sick during them, which is more than I expected.
So generally things are going OK. One week is not yet a statistically significant sample, but I think it's still safe to say things are looking up.
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