It’s a strange time of year in Minnesota, weather-wise. There’s enough sun high enough in the sky to warm things up pretty well during the mid-day. But there’s enough snow cover to reflect all that sunlight back into space, so nights still get pretty chilly – and it’s still a bit brisk when we get ready for work in the morning.
So for the next ten days or so we’ll be having highs pushing 30 during the day, but lows in the single-digits to barely over ten.
Which means that in the afternoon, I’m overwhelmed with the desire to start biking – and get bludgeoned in the morning by the idea that it’s probably be a really dumb idea for the time being.
That, and the roads in Saint Paul are atrocious this year. The city got behind the eight ball from the beginning; the Christmas ice/snow storm left most of the side streets as rutted and filling-jarring as andean goat paths.
Anyway. Soon. The goal for the year is to be back on the road by mid-March, to make up for the lousy biking last year, when a family commitment left me driving around the metro every morning all summer. While I did manage to bike a bit from September through November, and even squoze in a ride in early December, I never really got a rhythm going. The other goal? Get somewhere close to my 100-mile-a-week pace from 2008.
As soon as these freakin’ mornings warm up.
(NOTE: While this blog’s policy is to generally leave comments alone, all anti-biking comments will be mutilated for my own febrile amusement. There will be no further warnings).
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