i wore shorts yesterday!

[nuthatch]

What good spirits? I'm cranky, jealous, flabby and ready for spring!!! No, really, you California girls give me hope!

[LBTC]

quite a few of the riding guys around here used spikes all winter. one commutes to work, the others all ride for fun. they rode trails that were covered in ice and packed with snow. Me, I have an aversion to landing on ice. I suspect I'd break too easily! ha! there were enough factors to keep me off the trails all winter, but now the frost is barfing out on them and they're all muddy and icy....so....in the interest of not damaging the trails, we wait a few more weeks. it will be so sweeeeeeeeeeeeeet when we get out there finally!! Anyone have an idea how long it'll take me to get over strep throat so I can ride (and kick) hard again???

oh, and our days have been reaching 17 celcius. plenty warm enough for riding. shame about the bacteria....

Namaste,
~T~

[cyclingnewbie]

We have lots of riders in Ohio that ride all winter too. I don't like to ride in the rain, let alone in snow and ice. I don't have any desire to fall off my bike because I was trying to ride on ice! I stick with my trainer until it gets too cold in the garage, start again when it warms up a bit, and gain weight until spring. And then, in the summer, I complain bitterly about it being too hot. I really am very hard to please!! At least I don't have volcanoes, floods and mud slides to contend with too.

[cruziegirl]

quite a few of the riding guys around here used spikes all winter. one commutes to work, the others all ride for fun. they rode trails that were covered in ice and packed with snow. Me, I have an aversion to landing on ice. I suspect I'd break too easily! ha! there were enough factors to keep me off the trails all winter, but now the frost is barfing out on them and they're all muddy and icy....so....in the interest of not damaging the trails, we wait a few more weeks. it will be so sweeeeeeeeeeeeeet when we get out there finally!! Anyone have an idea how long it'll take me to get over strep throat so I can ride (and kick) hard again???

oh, and our days have been reaching 17 celcius. plenty warm enough for riding. shame about the bacteria....

Namaste,
~T~

Not to sound all Death, Gloom and Destruction but strep throat can be tricky so be sure to give yourself plenty of time to fully recover. Strep infections are really quite nasty and can weaken your resistance to other even nastier things like rheumatic fever. So take it slow and listen to your body.

[LBTC]

Strep infections are really quite nasty ... So take it slow and listen to your body.

but I don't wanna! heh. In theory this all makes sense. just having some trouble with the practicality of it.

I guess I can try kickboxing again on Monday? yeesh I sure hope so!! I can't imagine how I'll feel and look if I miss more time than that!

thanks for the reminder, cruziegirl. I'll try to be good...

Namaste,
~T~

[annie]

What are shorts???
The high temp here today was 28 F. But at least we don't have snow...yet...... Might get a bit tonight. I concede the worst conditions to my sister riders on the east coast and those up north. And my heartfelt empathy goes out to you. It is SO difficult to be enthused on an indoor bike after you've had a taste of outside............

annie

[massbikebabe]

What are shorts??? Today when I took my kids to school after a 2 hour delay because of an ADDITIONAL 5 inches of snow, it was -1 at the bank I drive by... The only shorts I am wearing these days are boxers over my long johns...not to mention the two pairs of socks and the gore-tex parka, and boots I had on. When I came home to shovel the winds were so strong I was getting blown all over the yard...so I quit, went in the house, made some coffee and read bike magazines all day while I watched my neighbors slide down the hill in their cars. The only positive thing I did was help my son prepare a mailing for the M.S. ride in June...we will go if it don't SNOW


karen
we all have our breaking points

[massbikebabe]

And I just heard the gleefull weatherman say that it was colder here than it was in Alaska, AND so far we have gotten 99 inches of snow...where is spazz
and her snowballs when I need her!!!!!

karen

[bikerchick68]

OMG! How do you ladies ride in SNOW??? Man, I think I'd take up a different hobby... I'm way to much of a wuss to ride when it's that cold out! Impressive for sure...

we actually got so much rain here, and so quickly, that they have officially ENDED our 7 yr drought... and about 30-40 homes have slid off hills! Someday we will learn to respect mother nature and NOT build on cliffs, hills and other places that seem to tick her off!

I'll have my fingers crossed for a warm spring for all you northerners and easterners... may you be riding in shorts soon! (We'll be collpasing from heat exhaustion about that time...)

Happy Riding!

[caligurl]

i'm with bikerchick on that one.. i will NOT ride in the snow.. i grew up in NY... and i didn't ski... rarely went ice skating.. only occasionally did the snowmobiling thing... i'm a WEENIE!

i whine and complain when it's in the 50's here.. and flat refuse to ride in the 40's (and in the 50's i'll bet i'm wearing the same gear as you gals that are riding in the 20's... 30's... or colder... and i STILL get cold!

i thought a recent article in bicycling mag showed the different areas/climates ideas of cold perfectly.... there was the one lady from cali quoted as saying about the same as me.. that below 50 is TOO COLD to ride!

oh.. and and update on our weather.. after that first day with shorts and LONG sleeves.. it got even warmer and i switched to my shimmels! it's been getting in the 90's here.. but that is supposed to change.. cooler (relatively speaking) this weekend and even one day next week is showing "only" 69 for the high! WEIRD weather!