Bike Ride!!!!!

[Catrin]

Good for you, Catrin! I bet it felt awesome to ride. I worked on my bike all day yesterday and am going to ride today. The weatherman is calling for a high of 58! I just can't believe it. 0 degrees on Thursday and 58 on Sunday. They always say if you don't like the weather in southern Illinois, just wait 2 hours because it will change.

THANK GOD it is changing! I am a southern woman, my blood is just too thin for the kind of winter we have had this year! I can't complain though, I've been in Indiana for 9 years and this is the first winter that has been like this. Sure, there have been winters with bad spells, but nothing like this one where it just kept coming week after week after month... Like I said in an earlier post somewhere here, I am a temperature weenie

Thursday morning it was -4 at one point, and today it gets to 43 - I will take it

At least I know not to spring for winter shoes if I return to clipping in at some point this year since I've little desire to ride <32 temps. Next fall I will get a trainer...

[Bike Chick]

At least I know not to spring for winter shoes if I return to clipping in at some point this year since I've little desire to ride <32 temps. Next fall I will get a trainer...

I'm with you. Trainers suck but I just can't do low 30's on the bike for very long. Guess I'm a southern girl too.

Hey, Catrin, I got the flyer for the Harmonie Hundred this week....first organized ride of the year. It sure did lift my spirits.

[Crankin]

I saw one woman riding yesterday as I was on my way to snow shoe. It was in the thirties, but the roads are just a mess here... melting/refreezing and still can't see around the intersections because of the snow piles. She was the first roadie I've seen in about a month; I've seen commuters a few times.
It is supposed to get up to 55 or more on Friday. DH took the day off, so we can ride.
Now we have to figure out how to get the hybrids out of the bike shed, as both the door and the lock are snowed in. Here's to some hopeful melting.
Off to x country ski.

[Catrin]

I'm with you. Trainers suck but I just can't do low 30's on the bike for very long. Guess I'm a southern girl too.

Hey, Catrin, I got the flyer for the Harmonie Hundred this week....first organized ride of the year. It sure did lift my spirits.

It does look like great fun I am thinking that Saturday will work better for me than Sunday. I get up at 4am on work days and I am afraid if I do the Sunday portion of the ride - then drive the 3.5 hours home - that I won't be able to sleep that night and Monday is always a bear at the office.

I am not riding on the road this weekend - still too much ice on my country roads. I am riding in Eagle Creek Park - the main loop is clear though the other roads are not. Amazing how much ice is around, it is going to take time, rain, and more than a few days of warmer temps for it to melt.