shoulda gone for the ride

if i knew it was going to be this mellow, quiet combined with my exhaustion i might have tried to get out on a ride with the BCC gang this afternoon...

as it is i might not have made it - all the trips back and forth to the other facility... i think there was just one day i wasn't down there (yesterday) and that day i did the wee ride over lunch...

wanna get fast? GET SOME SLEEP! i ain't gettin any... but am in general getting enough calories to compensate and still kicking around under 190. Which i still think is a bit weird... can't get used to being that light... but as i said before its a good light.

Pretty lame today i know... listening to some streets right now - those guys kick ass!

made it up 'the hill' today in a cog smaller than normal... and that's my new goal/game... gonna spend a week at one cog and go down until either i can't make it up or i get to the 50-12...

and the 70 degree thing... it was brought up by the cute Doc on the ride and also in her column over at velonews (quoted below)

Skin care, heat balm and keeping covered
I'm old and grumpy enough to observe two recent skin-care fads in cold weather cycling that I find puzzling and medically counterintuitive. The first is bare legs in the snow. I was a junior back when disco was king and all we had to go by was the CONI (Italian Olympic Committee) cycling manual. The good book strictly forbade riding in bare legs below 70 degrees Fahrenheit. These are words to live by, even with the bad English translation. Your skin can only do so much temperature regulation. Cold, bare legs make it harder for your body to maintain core temperature and prevent hypothermia.

Here's how it was always told to me: 60 degrees = short sleeves
and i've found even with my crappy knees that it works pretty damn well. I will always leave the knee warmers on longer... and have no qualms about going full length if conditions permit... there is no need for this old man to go for fasion... no one i can impress by being cold... well maybe there is but whats the point... gotta take care of the engine and the moving parts...

this weather here now is freaky - a blessing - when one can get out and ride in it, but sureal for January...

but let the weekend start - maybe i can find time to rest a bit - catch up on sleep - not depend on the vast amount of coffee i'm imbibing...

We'll see how the changes next week work... hopefully i can keep up the lofty goal of riding/bloggin/dreaming in the midst of everything else...

Can't leave without a wee touch of humor:

till tuesday - peace out