Dec 4th MONDAY rides

[mimitabby]

Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!

[makbike]

Winter has arrived here in Kentucky for at least the next few days or so. Hard to believe that last week it was in the low 70's - never know what is in store for you here in Kentucky. Sadly, I did not get to take advantage of that nice weather due to my bronchitis so all I could do is sit on my couch and dream about riding and enjoying the warm weather. Friday, the weather gods flipped the switch and sent the very cold air pouring into the Ohio Valley. So I'm back on my bike albeit in my living room. I got in 13 miles on my bike/trainer this evening and found myself longing for spring and beautiful roads in my community.

[Geonz]

I didn't get out in time to do early miles - I was even late to work 'cause it just took extra time to get all the layers on (15 degrees)... and then this plastic hanging plant not hanging but sitting on my porch leaped up and the hanger part grabbed my derailleur on my way out of the house (I had the bike in the house adding the odd Christmas decoration to it) and held on tightly... took me 5 minutes to separate the two. Talk about a lame excuse for lateness!
I'm done work at six but have singing at 7... so I dashed out and rode 5 pretty darned hard laps around the campus at 1.4 miles each... 7 sweaty miles! Little longer than the 10K I'm planning on doing inthe indoor time trial on the 17th.
Then I did an extra lap after singing before I went home... could really feel it in the ol' legs and I remembered that unemployed summer when I very first started Riding A Lot and how tough the night club ride (even the "easy" level ones, and our easy levels are easy) was if I'd gone out for a morning 13 miles... and I remember how much good that did In December, even!!
Today it's gonna just be the 15 - lots of stuff going on. Hopefully Howard won't get out and do 70 again, but heck, it could just be another century Saturday then! (Don't tell Howard...)

Mimit - sounds like a washout!!! Hope you got warm and dry!!!