In honor of spring and longer days...

[yellow]

...I thought I'd repost this link for making your own (customized by location) sunrise and sunset calendars. I tape these to my wall in the spring and summer. Enjoy!

(I just printed out April and May... )

[maillotpois]

Lovely! I was a little tacken aback by that huge bright yellow thing in the sky during my ride today... nice change!

[allabouteva]

For you northern hemispherers,

We don't get snow down here, and can pretty much cycle all year round.... Although it does get extremely hot in summer, and in winter the days do get very short.

So when does the cycling season start for you folks?

[maillotpois]

The cycling season never stops in Northern CA. We just get wet and grumpy!

[wabisabi]

As a number of us have pointed out, it certainly was wonderful in No.California today. It has been a VERY rainy season, so many of us have been grumpier than usual! Sometimes it is just too wet and stormy here to ride. I have been getting tired of spinning classes, that's for sure. We even had a hailstorm last week-almost unheard of on the coast. Today was cool and very windy, but sunny and really clear. I had wind from the north when riding north, and from the south when riding south--go figure, but I am definitely not complaining. Tonight I have that nice tired feeling!

[SadieKate]

Yellow, good idea! I was trying to figure out today how late I could ride. This would have solved the whole thing.

We just get wet and grumpy!

So true, so true! Glorious days here this weekend if you find 15 mph winds with gusts to 25. It's the gusting part that's miserable. It's like Mother Nature ate too many beans.

[jobob]

On my club ride yesterday we were talking about the upcoming change to Daylight Saving Time and someone mentioned that the dates its in effect are going to be different in 2007.

I had no clue, so I checked Google, and looks like it's true:
from http://webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/b.html

Daylight Saving Time begins for most of the United States at 2:00 a.m. on the first Sunday of April. Time reverts to standard time at 2:00 a.m. on the last Sunday of October. In the U.S., each time zone switches at a different time.
[...]
On August 8, 2005, President George W. Bush signed the Energy Policy Act of 2005. This Act changed the time change dates for Daylight Saving Time in the U.S. Beginning in 2007, DST will begin on the second Sunday of March and end the first Sunday of November. The Secretary of Energy will report the impact of this change to Congress. Congress retains the right to revert the Daylight Saving Time back to the 2005 time schedule once the Department of Energy study is complete.

And in case anyone was wondering,

For the U.S. and its territories, Daylight Saving Time is NOT observed in Hawaii, American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Arizona, and most of the Eastern Time Zone portion of Indiana. The Navajo Nation participates in the Daylight Saving Time policy, even in Arizona, due to its large size and location in three states.

That has to be confusing !

[Running Mommy]

Ok, so we go from wet and rainy to 90 degrees in a week?! YIPES!! But just MY kind of weather!! Going to take the boy mtn biking and hope the snakes are still in hibernation... Nanci I am NOT!

http://www.weather.com/outlook/trave...opnav_business

Can't wait to put on the sleevless jersey and RIDE this week!!! Ohh yeah... I'm SUPPOSE to be tapering... sigh... back to bracelet making...

[Lise]

For you northern hemispherers,

We don't get snow down here, and can pretty much cycle all year round.... Although it does get extremely hot in summer, and in winter the days do get very short.

So when does the cycling season start for you folks?

Hi, Eva,

Some cycle in Chicago all year long. For me, it starts when the temps are reliably in the 40s-50s F, usually April. It can't come soon enough. They're talking about more snow this week...grrr...I know, it happens every year, but I don't have to LIKE it!

[Lifesgreat]

...I thought I'd repost this link for making your own (customized by location) sunrise and sunset calendars. I tape these to my wall in the spring and summer. Enjoy!

(I just printed out April and May... )

Yellow,

Where is this sun you speak of??????

[CorsairMac]

Actually - Indiana passed the vote last year. They will now be changing times also which leave AZ and Hawaii as they only 2 states left that don't change times.

[yellow]

Yellow,

Where is this sun you speak of??????

I hear it was spotted in Cali over the weekend and is expected to make a unique Utah appearance on Thursday or Friday!

[AuntieK]

I think we should celebrate the sun's arrival with a celebratory bike ride!
Maybe if we show it how much we're enjoying it, it will stay around longer.

[yellow]

I think we should celebrate the sun's arrival with a celebratory bike ride!

If it's as warm as it's supposed to be on Sat, I hope to go do the Wasatch Women's ride. But I'm confused on where they meet...Golsan or Revolution? I thought it was Revolution but their not-up-to-date website says Golsan. I'll try to sleuth it out by Sat am.

'Kay, back to the sunrise/sunset topic...