I also feel like I might get burned out on riding if i don't get the enforced break that freezing weather usually gives me. That's what I was trying to say in my last post, which when i re-read didn't make sense at all (my son had just walked in the room, arriving from Virginia). I just can't pass up riding outside when it's this warm. We had this discussion at spin class yesterday morning. I am only going to spin once a week, since I am doing a winter training program at home. Some of the newer people were asking the instructor if he had been riding outside. He said no way, he won't go outside again until the streets are cleaned up. Well, sometimes that's not until late April! He seemed worried about his bike getting wrecked. He has the same bike as me, and I figure, well, I can always clean it! If it were warm and the streets were really full of sand or salt then I would take my mountain bike out on the road for a short spin, just to get out.
Well, Tasha, perhaps we will eventually get to snowshoe together once this winter. Sorry about your oil burner. I too slept with the windows open, but it was because my husband found that we had pine needles stuck behind the damper in one of our fireplaces; of course this was after he had thrown a burning wad of newspaper up there, to try and fix something else... our smoke detectors were going off for an hour or more and now the whole house stinks.
OK, going to wait for this rain to clear, so I can go out and ride!