Winter Yet?

The forecast low for tonight is 31°F. If it actually gets that low here, that would make it easily the coldest we've had all winter. In reality, it probably won't get quite that low here in my neighborhood, but I guess it'll be close enough. Right now, at 10 p.m., it's around 43°, which would be a regular heat wave up in Iowa City where it's presently 15 below zero on its way down to 21 below. Pretty damned cold, even by midwest standards. So I guess winter's here, or there, as the case may be.

Today's 6 am excursion into the darkness was relatively comfortable. The wind was rather mild and the temperature was around 40° I guess. I had done another Spin class the night before. This time I got one of those instructors who, as far as I can tell, doesn't really get the whole bicycle connection at all. Mostly out of the saddle stuff, silly games where half the room spins while the other recovers (why?), and other ridiculousness. If I'd wanted an aerobics class, I'd have signed up for one. Anyway, I turned it into a decent workout anyway, somehow managing to avoid pulling a hamstring or coming out with a sore back.

So anyway, I didn't feel too bad heading out to the morning training ride. Unlike Tuesday, today's ride was quite steady and controlled. We lost Woody, Erich, and I guess a couple others who had to turn back early for work, so the group was relatively small today. Luckily we picked up the Destrehan Gang along the way. On the way back it seemed like the wind was picking up the whole time, and we spent a lot of time around 22-23 mph even though we were pushing fairly hard.


Back at work, a couple of big projects are more or less wrapped up and by noon I was able to find a little time to catch up on a few LAMBRA things that have kind of hanging over my head. We had a little LAMBRA conference call at 12:30 which went pretty well even though only a few people called in for it.


So I'm kind of looking forward to tomorrow's morning ride. Given the fact that it will be near or below freezing, plus the fact that it'll be a Friday, I should probably be thinking more about taking the day off, but for some sick reason I kind of like the challenge of riding in miserable conditions once in a while.