That's what it has been like along the bike path. Pretty much exactly. at least I'm not having to do 90° turns every 5-10 feet. Just plow straight ahead and let the bike dance under me. This is tough snow. And now the ground is soft under it. But the damn ice and snow isn't going anywhere fast enough. There are one or two stretches of the path that are blissfully clear. Amazing the contrast in effort needed to cruise along on bare pavement vs snow.
I tried an alternate route in an attempt to avoid the string of monster puddles with the parkway bypass. And well. I encountered one big puddle and though well, maybe that's it. Nope. 4 more big ones. Walk around the edge kind with the ice and water edge to edge. Got snagged by some damn multi-flora rose (hate that plant) and took 3x as long to cover the same ground. But hey, at least I know where that trail/two track dumps out. That with the wind blowing perpendicular to me and riding with a solid lean angle. Made it fun. Sort of.
Legs still feel decently strong. I seem to have some of the power left, but my all out 25-30mph sprint from the stoplight at Gano/Tabor on Angel (trying to hang with a Carrera 4S) found my anaerobic sustain to be quite a bit shorter than the first of December. S'okay. Cross doesn't start for a few months. Plenty of time to work on it.
heddwch
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