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cool and damp...so glad I'm not on the east coast right now!

sprinkling & thundering on the way home, just beat the hail!

My fixed gear bike has been my bike of choice for the better part of the last 5 years. I got it to enhance my training, figuring that every minute I was on the bike, I was pedaling. It's also...

30s and a couple inches of snow on the car in the a.m. Forutunately none sticking to the roads. Glad I didn't need to swap back to the snow tires. Wet, but not windy ride in. Sunny and warmish...

Wicked cross winds both ways, but commute seemed faster, having swapped out the snow tires for slicks. Supposed to snow again tonight! May have changed tires a bit too soon :)

I'm still in. Ridden every day that I've not been on-call or traveling. Way too mild a winter in CO has made it easy.

Clear & crisp riding to work. Another really nice sunrise. Glad it's getting lighter for the ride to work. Snow predicted to start at 5, so had a nice ride home in the snow. Hopin' for a powder...

Sometime while I was stuck inside at work, the predicted cold front actually came through...

ride to work: 40 F & mostly dry roads with a few ice patches
ride home: 7 F & mostly snow packed...

Suet is fat off beef (or maybe also mutton) kidneys. It's a fairly hard, white fat that doesn't really have a lot of taste, just a unique melting point that makes it useful for steamed pudding.
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I blog to let sponsors, friends and family follow along on an annual bike ride.

I update it daily during the time of the ride and periodically during the year if something relevant motivates me.

Another awesome powder day here. 4F when I left the house. Broke down and wore goggles and the heavy gloves.

Finally a day when the temp going in was close to the one coming home ... 15F. Cold fingers, but great ride home under the nearly full moon.

Ride home was a bit smelly. Took a long route home and went by road-kill fox, raccoon and skunk. I'll take a different route home tomorrow.

I'm planning on riding daily, except when I'm on call or traveling for work.

that 4th pic is of Bradley Wiggins, Olympic & World champ on the track. He does look awfully thin in that picture. Team lists him as 6'3" 170# NBC/Bejiing olympics bio puts him at 154 pounds.

Didn't see any foals, but a lot of calves along my route today. Got in about 25 miles of mixed road & trail riding. Great way to welcome spring.

Just poking fun at sandbagging cyclists..."that's not wind, that's just a slight breeze, wait til spring when the wind really starts" My personal limit this winter has been gusts over 70. I'm...

Oh yea, forgot about Solobiker's technique of dealing with the wind...sandbagging...todays 30mph winds with 60mph gusts were nothing, just wait a few months, then it'll really get windy. :)

I can't give much helpful advise, as I'm frequently demoralized by the front range winds too. I don't have a good mantra either, but one thing I've found marginally helpful is to check the local...

70F high, sunny, breezy, hundreds of cyclists, definitely not my usual winter commute.

Since I ride to work most of the winter anyway, it's not going to change much for me, but our City is sponsoring a Winter Bike to Work Day today. I don't think they were expecting temps forecast to...

No thread hijack at at all, great to hear about anyone's ride. I was just happy to get outside, despite the winds and excellent to hear about Denise back on the road.

I did take the picture by...

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With Colorado front range winds gusting into the 70s and 80s the past couple of days, I didn't even ride to work, despite the moderate temps. Today, the winds dropped to a more manageable 10-20 with...

Don't know if it qualifies as a good blog, but here's what I do to help folks follow me on my now annual ride to the National Law Enforcement Memorial in DC. http://jpput.blogspot.com/