cylegoddess
06-13-2009, 02:15 AM
Guess what? I conquered my fear that I might melt, if I rode in bad weather.
Im a bit frail but nothing stops me.
I needed green apples in the worst way( confirmed addict) so after 7 hours of standing on my feet ,moving large objects around( I am visual merchandiser), I decided that I had a hour to ride to shops( its 5 km away) and back before dark. It was about 5o.
So I put on two pairs of longs, two merino jumpers, a merino singlet, a cycling jacket and a puffa vest. Also some merino sox and booties, fleece hat and gloves.
I ride to shops, no problemo, quite cold and clouds brewing like coffee.
I get out of shops and its sleeting. So Im riding home, as fast as I can( which isnt as fast as id like, as Chronic fatigue means you can not exert yourself totally or your stuffed for like a month), to prevent the sleeting rain from soaking in from top layers( forgot rain jacket), to meet the sweat soaking in from lower layers( which seemed to me, would be the instant I contracted pneumonia!). Its so rainy that I cant see too well:eek:and face is cold and wet,
But made it home, before critical mass and if it wasnt 6o below, I would do it again!!( But , sadly mass ratio of clothes to outside weather has reached maximum density, so I cant really put enough on to beat the chill.
Oh if only I could be like those Assos ads, where to cycle in Switzerland ( or wherever) one is kitted out only on 3/4 knicks, a cap, a merino jumper, gloves and cycling jacket!!:mad:
Im a bit frail but nothing stops me.
I needed green apples in the worst way( confirmed addict) so after 7 hours of standing on my feet ,moving large objects around( I am visual merchandiser), I decided that I had a hour to ride to shops( its 5 km away) and back before dark. It was about 5o.
So I put on two pairs of longs, two merino jumpers, a merino singlet, a cycling jacket and a puffa vest. Also some merino sox and booties, fleece hat and gloves.
I ride to shops, no problemo, quite cold and clouds brewing like coffee.
I get out of shops and its sleeting. So Im riding home, as fast as I can( which isnt as fast as id like, as Chronic fatigue means you can not exert yourself totally or your stuffed for like a month), to prevent the sleeting rain from soaking in from top layers( forgot rain jacket), to meet the sweat soaking in from lower layers( which seemed to me, would be the instant I contracted pneumonia!). Its so rainy that I cant see too well:eek:and face is cold and wet,
But made it home, before critical mass and if it wasnt 6o below, I would do it again!!( But , sadly mass ratio of clothes to outside weather has reached maximum density, so I cant really put enough on to beat the chill.
Oh if only I could be like those Assos ads, where to cycle in Switzerland ( or wherever) one is kitted out only on 3/4 knicks, a cap, a merino jumper, gloves and cycling jacket!!:mad: