Important info
Feb. 1st, 2008 09:09 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
johnridleyNote to self (and others I suppose):
If you're riding in the winter, and your bike clothes are still in the wash so you have to improvise and not wear the bike shorts with the padded crotch, especially if you're wearing the backup wind pants with the perfectly (badly) placed rip in the crotch, shove some insulation down the front of the pants. A nice wool sock would be good.
Owie.
I was supposed to run the kids to school today, so I wasn't sweating getting the clothes moved to the dryer last night. The kids were doing the snow day dance but I didn't believe it would happen. Even when I got up in the morning I thought "There's just not that much snow." Well, it was a snow day anyway. Around here that generally means that they just haven't had time to plow all the back roads (there are a lot of them, and they're really low priority; a mile of road with 2 houses on it, and those houses have 4WD trucks anyway).
The riding was not bad at all. There was probably only about 6" of snow, and it hasn't been ground up and frozen into ice ruts yet. Hopefully they'll get it plowed during the day before that happens. It WAS a darn good workout; snow, ruts, and about a 10+ MPH headwind. Only added about 6 minutes to the ride, including that I pulled over about 5 times in the last 2 miles to let cars pass when there was also oncoming traffic.
If you're riding in the winter, and your bike clothes are still in the wash so you have to improvise and not wear the bike shorts with the padded crotch, especially if you're wearing the backup wind pants with the perfectly (badly) placed rip in the crotch, shove some insulation down the front of the pants. A nice wool sock would be good.
Owie.
I was supposed to run the kids to school today, so I wasn't sweating getting the clothes moved to the dryer last night. The kids were doing the snow day dance but I didn't believe it would happen. Even when I got up in the morning I thought "There's just not that much snow." Well, it was a snow day anyway. Around here that generally means that they just haven't had time to plow all the back roads (there are a lot of them, and they're really low priority; a mile of road with 2 houses on it, and those houses have 4WD trucks anyway).
The riding was not bad at all. There was probably only about 6" of snow, and it hasn't been ground up and frozen into ice ruts yet. Hopefully they'll get it plowed during the day before that happens. It WAS a darn good workout; snow, ruts, and about a 10+ MPH headwind. Only added about 6 minutes to the ride, including that I pulled over about 5 times in the last 2 miles to let cars pass when there was also oncoming traffic.
