I’ve run out of cheers, so I can’t cheer you on.

Some questions:
What kind of bike do you have now?
What’s your clean-up options at work?
What’s your clothes situation, both in terms of things to wear on the bike, and then, what you need to wear at work?

Some thoughts for you:

- Put your bike things together the night before: set out your shorts, pack up the trunk, and so forth. If you have the assumption that you’re riding to work, then you don’t have to decide to ride to work in the morning. It’s just what you do.

- The set-up you have on a bike for commuting may not be the same for, say, club rides. You’ll want things that make the bike practical for everyday transportational riding: fenders, handlebar or rear bag, lights, tougher tires.

- You’ll make it in to work faster in the future, as you gain in strength. 10 miles one-way is to my mind, an ideal commute: long enough to be substantial, not so long as to be daunting to do every day.

- 100 miles a week means you can easily build up to participate in long-distance events. I don’t know what the cycling season looks like in Austin, but you might want to find out when clubs or charities are holding them. You could do a metric century as your first goal, then a 100 miler as a second one.