Winter riding in Chicago is so amazingly hard-core! How do you not freeze to death? Or skid on black ice? (seriously, I'm asking.) I just couldn't do it, although I wish I could. I miss riding so much in the winter, but since I am the type to dread running through the cold from the car to the grocery store in the winter, and thereby put off shopping until it is clear I will starve to death, winter riding just so wouldn't work for me!

Oh, and if you were out there on the lakefront today at 5am, I know you "chose" to cycle in the rain, so again, hard-core. I, on the other hand, decided to forgo riding in the rain, and went to spinning class instead. Tomorrow, even though it will be hot as heck, it at least won't be raining, so I'll get a ride in then - maybe on the north branch trail . . .