Shooting for 7500

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How nice to have a place to brag

Melalvai - I know what you mean, riding when it's cold can be ok but it does require really good clothing. If you already run or xc ski in the winter you'll have most of the stuff, but if not buying winter bike gear sure does make it a lot more comfortable.

My goal requires commuting the long way (but not the Really Long Way ) to work every day between now and Christmas, and one ride in the weekend, but it accomodates the short way home and one day off a week. I have this all tallied out in a really nice spreadsheet...

But I might get sick or the weather might turn really nasty, so I'm trying to work up a little headstart now that everything is peachy. We rarely get snow (that lasts) before January, so I'm kind of counting on that. I don't try too hard to ride below -10 deg. C, it's possible but I have to put on yet another layer and my bike has been real cranky for a while by then. Oslo gets cold snaps down to -15 -20, but they don't last more than max two weeks, and usually in February. The last few winters have been depressingly mild and wet!

Now the next numbercrunching I have to do is to find out if I can afford that nice Gore rain jacket I've decided I'm worth...