Thursday, January 31, 2008

four commutes...

..and no frozen appendages in the last couple of weeks! It hasn't exactly been warm around here recently but at least it's been well above zero. As a result, not only have I been able to ride outside a fair amount but my trainer time has been minimal so far this season as well. Waaaahooooooo! In years past I've been able to churn out 1.5-2 hr trainer sessions but so far this year 45 minutes is about all I can muster and many nights I'll just crank out a quick 30 minutes to keep the legs and guilt moving. Thank god I've been able to get outside.

There are two main reasons I've been able to get out so much this year. 1. On my alloted days I'll ride no matter how cold it gets (-30 with windchill on a couple of days so far) and will only cancel for weather if it's too nasty (snow etc) for it to be safe with cars around. 2. With the El Mariachi set up single, with fenders and three sets of wheel & tire combos to chose from (slicks for good days, studs for potential ice and fat knobbies for in between days) there really isn't any good reason to not getting out. Except the puss excuse but thankfully I've only used that once or twice so far this year.

3 comments:

Jason said...

In cold weather I used the "puss excuse" almost exclusively.

rick is! said...

I thought about linking to you through the "puss" comment but was too lazy. When I think of puss, I think on you. Wait, that sounded bad...

Jason said...

Marcy must be offended! OOhhhhh. I just kicked this up to rated "Rrrrrrrr"- Adult pirate humor.