jesser

I'm riding Time ATAC pedals now, like them a lot. I used to ride SPDs. They clog up with mud very easily, so they're useless for CX or if you have sloppy conditions. The Crank Bros. pedals shed mud well, and some friends of mine like them, but I've also heard they're not as durable.

Yep, they work fine, at least if you have a decent quality hub. I've been using a Surly hub for the last several years. In practice, I almost never flip the wheel in the middle of a ride. It's too much bother to ride to the top of the hill in the small gear, get off and flip the wheel, adjust the brakes, and then ride on. It's more something you set at the beginning of the ride, depending on what sort of course you're doing (bigger gear for flattish, rolling terrain, smaller gear for something hilly). In this way, a flip flop hub does not go against the idea of ss at all, if you care at all about holding true to some arbitrary standard.

Agreed, going 30 minutes to start is pretty good. I either watch movies (nothing with a lot of dialogue, subtitled action movies are best) or listen to really obnoxious music. Keeping up the mental drive to pedal is the hardest part for me.