December 24
29 degrees
Snowing
Singlespeed – one hour

Gear – 2 polypro layers on top, all winter gear, with the addition of my softshell Cloudveil pants that I normally wear x-country skiing, balaclava.

I played fast and loose with my plan today and swapped the Wednesday and Thursday schedules. And then, instead of riding inside – I rode my SS outside. And instead of following it up with a weight workout – I started my day with some pilates. crazy, absolutely crazy.

I stood in the garage doing eeny-meeny-miney-moe to pick what bike to ride. In the end, I went with the SS for two reasons. #1 – I missed it and wanted to ride it. #2 – I felt the tires might be a better choice for today.

It was snowing pretty hard. I would have been happy to have goggles for this ride. The climb part was sloppy and I found myself riding in the middle of the road for optimal traction. Good thing the traffic was light to non-existent. Still, I wasn’t breaking any speed records today. The bike picked up a lot of extra weight. See what I mean:

Today’s ride was a blast, I wish I had more time and some goggles as it would have been a great day for a longer ride.