December 6 Wed. Rides

[mimitabby]

DH dropped me off at work with the Bianchi. guess that means I'm committed right?
Sun shining at 3pm quitting time, but I didn't feel well. Gosh, I wanted someone to give me a ride home SO BAD!

but I got on the bike anyway. I rode the scary parts, finally got up to the top of the hill, where I could turn right and log 4 miles OR turn left and pick up a library book and log 10 miles. BELIEVE IT OR NOT! I turned left! It was so cold!
45 degrees and I was sweating from the hill climb. Then I took my shell off
at the library and i was hot and cold at the same time all the way home.

I logged 10 miles for TE today!

[im4smiley]

Between the weather and my work schedule the only riding I did in the last 2 weeks was at my monday night spin training class. So I decided that I would commute the the gym and to work today. It was beautiful riding under the moon light at 5:40 am, but chillly this morning at about 19 degrees. I have a short commute to the gym about 20 minutes and I was only cold for the first few minutes and then I was warmed up and I was toasty by the time I got to the gym (of course the last mile is kind a slight incline so that helped warm me up!) I am off this weekend so I am hoping for nice weather (meaning no rain or snow) so that I can get some riding in!!

[mimitabby]

ha, you guys show me for the weather wimp I am. When I got home i checked the Seattle weather to see the temp. It seemed much too high; so i checked the personal weather stations in the area too. They were all 45 and above as well. BRRR
I am just a weather wimp, what can i say? It felt cold to me.

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

Yeah well I got really sick this afternoon after my freezing morning ride. Had to go to bed all day. Serves me right. Now i'll be laid up for days probably, if it's anything like how it has hit DH. Like a freight train

[mimitabby]

Well, i hope you get to feeling better soon!

[salsabike]

Rode my single today for the first time in weeks. And, Mimi, I found that I had WAY overdressed---I had to stop within five miles and take off my Ibex top and just use arm warmers and the usual soccer jersey. Changed my "cold" gloves for regular light ones. Wished I had brought my light headband instead of my fleece one (from my Oct. SS, who thoughtfully picked as close to celeste as she could find--got pretty close too, and the headband feels great, by the way!). It was BEAUTIFUL, a great day to ride on the river trail. But it did feel a little like a taffy pull, with my legs as the taffy, of course. OOOF. We've done several tandem rides (30-50 miles each) over the last 6 weeks, but it just ain't the same as riding your single. But boy, did it feel good to be back out on that bike.

[Grog]

Glad to hear it was a great day for many of us!

I also rode my road bike today, for the first time in over a month. I have scaled back my riding to increase my running volume and to re-build excitement about riding. It totally worked! I just rode 27km with a friend in the afternoon, but it was a great one, decent weather, sunny, some wind which always seemed to be a tail one. Didn't really even need the fenders.

Made me excited about a longer ride this weekend! Yooohoo!