In honor of spring and longer days...

[SadieKate]

Yellow, good idea! I was trying to figure out today how late I could ride. This would have solved the whole thing.

We just get wet and grumpy!

So true, so true! Glorious days here this weekend if you find 15 mph winds with gusts to 25. It's the gusting part that's miserable. It's like Mother Nature ate too many beans.

[jobob]

On my club ride yesterday we were talking about the upcoming change to Daylight Saving Time and someone mentioned that the dates its in effect are going to be different in 2007.

I had no clue, so I checked Google, and looks like it's true:
from http://webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/b.html

Daylight Saving Time begins for most of the United States at 2:00 a.m. on the first Sunday of April. Time reverts to standard time at 2:00 a.m. on the last Sunday of October. In the U.S., each time zone switches at a different time.
[...]
On August 8, 2005, President George W. Bush signed the Energy Policy Act of 2005. This Act changed the time change dates for Daylight Saving Time in the U.S. Beginning in 2007, DST will begin on the second Sunday of March and end the first Sunday of November. The Secretary of Energy will report the impact of this change to Congress. Congress retains the right to revert the Daylight Saving Time back to the 2005 time schedule once the Department of Energy study is complete.

And in case anyone was wondering,

For the U.S. and its territories, Daylight Saving Time is NOT observed in Hawaii, American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Arizona, and most of the Eastern Time Zone portion of Indiana. The Navajo Nation participates in the Daylight Saving Time policy, even in Arizona, due to its large size and location in three states.

That has to be confusing !

[Running Mommy]

Ok, so we go from wet and rainy to 90 degrees in a week?! YIPES!! But just MY kind of weather!! Going to take the boy mtn biking and hope the snakes are still in hibernation... Nanci I am NOT!

http://www.weather.com/outlook/trave...opnav_business

Can't wait to put on the sleevless jersey and RIDE this week!!! Ohh yeah... I'm SUPPOSE to be tapering... sigh... back to bracelet making...

[im4smiley]

Here in Massachusetts this past weekend was too cold for me to ride. I am a wimp. It was low 30's and there was blustery wind. But Spring is here today so hopefully some nice warm Spring weather will follow!

Karen

[DeniseGoldberg]

Here in Massachusetts this past weekend was too cold for me to ride. I am a wimp. It was low 30's and there was blustery wind. But Spring is here today so hopefully some nice warm Spring weather will follow!

Karen

Well, we had the same cold & wind in the eastern part of the state that you did in western Massachusetts. But my bikes insisted on riding...

Seriously, I did get out for short rides both weekend days. It felt good, in spite of the cold - and luckily for me I've trained myself (from both a mental standpoint & from knowing the right layers to wear) to be able to ride in temperatures down to 20. This is the first year for that - before my absolute low riding temp was 30. OK, OK, I know I'm a bit of a nut...

Here's hoping that relative warmth follows today's "first day of spring" on the calendar fairly quickly!

--- Denise

[DrBee]

rain, rain, go away.... come again another day (well - for my garden)...

We had a week in the 80's and now we're back in the 50's for highs and 30's for lows for the forseeable future. Mother nature is such a tease.

[uk elephant]

I have always been against daylight savings time in spring. I don't appreciate loosing an hour of sleep! Fall is nice when I get to sleep an hour longer....I'd keep that one.

But then I had a look at that sunrise/sunset calendar for London and suddenly, next week sunset will be around 7:30pm! That means I can go for a ride after work and it will still be light outside! I've changed my mind about daylight savings. Maybe we could even shift it two hours? I'm useless in the mornings anyway. Daylight is wasted on me before 10am.

As for when riding season starts here.....I ride year round, or at least used to in Illinois and Norway. I've only had a bike here since the end of Januar, but have kept riding every week and the weather will only get nicer. Winter I can deal with. We'll see how I do in the summer when it goes above 20C. I may have to wait until fall....

[allabouteva]

I was in Beijing in January. Now THAT's a cycle city. I think my tour guide said 9 million bikes in Beijing. The temperature was -1 to -5 degrees C. which is what about high 20s and low 30s, and I saw tons of cyclists... I think for many residents of Beijing that's their main transport and they don't have much choice.

[Running Mommy]

Thats what my friends in CA call it in the fall when suddenly they lose sunlight. But here in AZ we don't play the game- and I LOVE it! Ya see the way we see it, the last thing we need in summer is ANOTHER hour of sunlight...
Plus Arizonan's tend to be rebels just by nature...