Today's ride

[TriMom217]

Hubby and I headed out at 3:15 on a mission to test the cold weather gear. The temps cooperated, it was a very windy 28 degrees when we left. We did 18 miles and arrived home in 25 degrees with a real feel of 11.

An hour twenty is probably as long as I want to ride in those kind of temps. I wasn't cold, but I wasn't as comfortable as I'd like to be. The wind is brutal today, 15-20 MPH.

We also have new lights and it's nice to be seen as it gets dark.

Anyone else ride today?

[Eden]

bwaaaa- haaaaa we got home before it started to snow. It was actually very nice this morning. Chilly - around 32, but the proper dress + hand and toe warmers and it felt quite nice. The sun was even out for most of our ride.

[HillSlugger]

Cold and very windy. Toes warm and fingers cold when I started, fingers warm and toes nearly numb when I was done. I cut my planned 24 mile ride down to 20. 34 degrees when I left the house, 36 when I returned. Unless I can figure out how to keep my toes warmer I can't ride when it's this cold.

[blueskies]

My ride was in spinning class, but I couldn't stop smiling. It's the first time I've been able to ride since having surgery on October 18th. It felt so good. My legs were so happy to be pedaling again. And to make it all even sweeter, my #1 top cycling inspiration song got played! (Bruce singing Badlands)

Did I say it felt so good?

[Fredwina]

I rode to start of the club to pick up some Brevet paperwork from another rider. I rode along with the group until I got to my church, where I pulled off since I had altar guild tomorrow, It turn we were having a funeral, so I had to come back later. I caught up with the slow riders, and the did the short rider. Lounged around before heading back to church. Took care of my duties, got some books at the library, looked at gloves at the bike shop, then headed home after 45 miles.

[froglegs]

22 miles today, it was a bit chilly and windy but not bad. I am still sick, so I was slower than usual. Then came home and did some wrenching on the bike, showered, and now just looked down and realized I still have grease all over my leg. Fantastic.

[makbike]

To cold to ride outside today so I rode 22.5 miles on my trainer. Thank goodness for VH1 and their music video countdown! Tomorrow is suppose to be warmer (low 60's) but rain is forecasted to fall most of the day so it looks like another day on the trainer! Either way I'll ride.

[SouthernBelle]

I got ready to ride this morning and went to get my Garmin. It wouldn't power up and after an hour on the net trying to find a solution I gave up. Went to get the cell phone and I had let the battery die.

So I rode sans technology. Don't know how far I rode, but it was a nice ride!

[kelownagirl]

1 hour on the trainer, zone 1 and 2. Listened to Our Miss Brooks and some rocking good music on my ipod.

[withm]

My TE cold weather package just arrived yesterday so I went out to test the new gear. It was about 38-40o but with NNW winds 27-30KT (which translates to even higher numbers when you measure it in MPH.) The ocean was, well, how we say, "disorganized."

I was plenty warm enough though I after my prelininary spin around the block to get everything adjusted, returned home to add my neoprene ear warmer to the new Smartwool balaclava. That wind was just brutal. My new Louis Garneau lobster gloves worked great, but the fingers are too long and it made it hard to shift or push up my glasses, or adjust the mirror. That and I missed the end of the plastic thingy that attaches the gloves to each other so it was poking me. Finally found it and made it go away. I think I'm just going to see if I can't shorten the fingers on my sewing machine. Has anyone ever done this with gloves? The index finger is just too long, and the remaining finger part needs to be rounded off a bit. It has a long almost square edge on the mitten part where your middle finger is. It's got to go. Sheesh. The Louis Garneau glove liners are nice though. Same size and the fingers are just the right length. I only did 15 miles due to the wind - would have stayed out longer but those gusts were brutal at that temperature.

[Trek420]

I went to the dojo, worked out over an hour and a half (normal class) and dayuhm am I sore and stiff. I've lost all kinds of flexibility, range of motion as well as which foot is right or left.

Then went to the LBS to pick up the mixte.