Snow Biking @ Team Estrogen!

[Susan Otcenas]

Now, who is everyone?

From left: Abra, me, Molly, Gayle.

The snow has stopped for the moment, but they say it should continue for most of the day.

The last time we had 6 inches of snow, they closed the schools for a week....

[suzieqtwa]

This is how i got around today...hope picture shows up.

[mimitabby]

Well, there was my DH:




Great to see you guys all on your bikes!

[chickwhorips]

looks like everyone is having fun in the snow. its raining here and our snow is going away.

mimi i love the snowpeople!

[mimitabby]

I made the snowpeople in a school yard, there is a teacher and 7 students.

[Pax]

Looks like you had a ball Susan! When we get snow here it's typically followed by a few days of sunny but arctic cold weather (single digit or below zero temps).

[spokewench]

Snow is okay - but solid ice is what we have had since Friday. It's just been too dangerous to ride the roads around here for me. Way too cold too. Got down to 14 below on Friday night (i think it was) and today althought the ice is starting to melt cause of sunshine, the temperature is in the 20s somewhere but with an 8 degree windchill at 1:20 in the afternoon. I'm just not going out to ride in this kind of weather!

I'll stay again on my trainer for the third day in a row, probably tomorrow also with a little tennis again tomorrow afternoon.

[Geonz]

Yes, it was so cold that the weather channel lady said "Let me go check that one!" (I could have called her and said "I saw it on the TE board, it's for real!"

That's an awesome pict ure

I feel like a total wimp now 'cause I went out in the snow this morning. More snow than *I* have ever ridden in - I though it was just flurries but they were clumping up and there was an intersection where I hit the pedals and the wheel moved in its little circle but the bike didn't. I just coasted through the rest of that intersection (making a right turn) so perhaps the drivers thought I was being a scofflaw - or perhaps they saw me skidding.

I suppose I shouldn't feel too wimpy because there weren't any road treatments to speak of. Probably would have been easier if we'd *had* an inch or two. At 18 degrees it was a nice powder except for those little clots of ice.