rain to snow

but still too warm to use the studs. i think the recent acquisition (don't worry i didn't pay anywhere near full list price for them, yet) was the lynch pin sealing the deal of no more snow. GeWilli got winter tires and Winter said "fuck it, i'm done."

This feeble snow shit we're getting is pretty tame. Lots of flakes, little stick. But then maybe it will freeze tonight and I'll HAVE to ride in on the studs because it will all be frozen.

I can't believe i'm wishing for a bike path covered in ice and snow right now. I've lost it.

And always when you think things are going south faster than an industrial flush toilet, you run into someone who's been hanging on the toilet rim a hell of a lot longer.

It was raining when I left the house a bit later than planned this morning. Turned on to the bike path with a full on blast of wind. Fuck North again? Shit. Stupid 15 mph or so headwind. Great.

Invisible aero-bar time again.

But the time i got to the parking lot up there at the Fort at the top of the Vet parkway it was almost starting to snow. Then it started snowing in PVD proper as i was crossing the bridge. No sticktuitiveness. Just raining snow. Lame.

Oh well. 32 minutes (i work at a bit higher elevation than i live at - faster to go home) but i didn't really blitz it. But i did push it and it felt good to do that.

it is odd. Today is day 31 of riding every day. No break. And the only time i actually only logged the minimum 15 minutes was Sunday at the end of the day. It turns out I fucked up the challenge though. It was to have ridden the trainer for at least 15 minutes everyday IN ADDITION TO the regular riding. Damn. I screwed that up. sort of. But I didn't miss a fucking day on the bike in February. FTW.

new challenge issued by NC (complete with a picture of him bawling his head off) is doubles. Double days on the bike. No Problem. I've been on the bike 75 times since the new year started.

SEVENTY FIVE times. 75 times sitting on the saddle. Hell none of them are the daily 6 hour rides of the Myerson, and they for sure haven't been recorded in any way. No mileage numbers (no i don't even have a working bike computer on a working bike right now). No TSS, SST, HR, AVG, MAX, whatever numbers for anything. No record other than cellular. And fuck it, isn't that what matters? Anyway.

Tonights ride home will be #76. And my 3rd double of the month. Although i wonder if my sub 20 minute counts on monday night (20 min rule). I'm fucking counting it because it hurt, even with a 30 mph tail wind.

And I'll say something. My legs actually feel pretty awesome. No achy soreness after the really hard rides. Granted I didn't do to many but that 4+ hour thing with little to no food wasn't easy. No stiffening up, no issues.

Well i have issues after driving this damn rental car. Fuck my knee hurt this morning. Really dull achy MCL. And I only drove it for 20 minutes each way last night. It hurt like a sumbitch when i got home and falling asleep. Now it feels fine after the ride. Stupid little people cars, why are the germans the only one who can get it right? Why? It isn't that hard to figure it out.

That riding everyday thing works. I don't know how it would work "in season" but I'm thinking, if kept to a real min of energy expenditure and was just pedal time, probably pretty damn well. Might try that. I'm only 8 double days away from having as many rides in 2010 as G-ride did in all of 2009. that's pretty insane.

The whole single car thing has affected my whole mentality going into the spring. I was gung ho about getting training crits in, doing things like Charge Pond and what not. But now, well, saturday AM is creative movement for the youngest and well that means if I'm riding, I'm leaving the house under my own power, and that means long rides with who ever is leaving somewhere local to PVD. And few race opportunities. It is okay, maybe that's for the best. it is what it is and it is what i have to deal with. And there are worse things to have to deal with.

we'll what the ride home tonight is like. it won't be very enjoyable because i'll probably be busy right up until about 5 minutes after I have to leave to take it easy riding home. Hopefully there will be a bitching tail wind and i can hit the sub 20 mark again. I doubt it will be, more likely the wind will kick around and I'll have a nice headwind on the way home too. such is life. How often can you ride and only see a headwind all day long?

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