I had a free day this weekend from my coach and it ended up being a battle between my bed and bike. I used to LOVE sleeping in, but lately I've been waking up pretty early (for me). Such was the case on Saturday morning. I was up and staring at fresh snow outside by 6:15 a.m.
My plan was to meet up with the Jim Allan ride at 9, but after seeing snow outside I decided to NOT do it. It was back to bed for me. I climbed in, thought about my bike for about 10 minutes, and got back out. Went outside to check the temperature (15 degrees) and climbed back into my warm bed for the second time of the morning. It was warm, cozy and comfy and I did a pretty good job of convincing myself why it would be better to sleep in then go ride in the snow. Then I started thinking about my bike again.
The bike ended up winning and I was out the door before 8 a.m. and riding on snow covered roads. I can't ride trails right now, so trying to stay upright on ice is my version of working on bike skills.
I ended up getting a little over 4 hours in and was so happy that I woke up early. The only downside was that I had taken my topeak fender off for a photo, and forgot to put it back on. Ugh!!! The last half hour of my ride was completely unpleasant as I felt like I had a ten pound, frozen wet diaper on. Needless to say, I had the best hot shower of my life when I got home.
My bike is getting sick of all the snow, sludge and salt I've been riding through...
I think I speak for everyone in Michigan when I say thank goodness today is the last day in February. I know we often have bad weather (and lots of it) in March, but at least we are getting closer to warmer days, right???In the meantime, I'm going to start adding sponsors and my race schedule for 2011. I'm wiping the links clean for a day or two, but will start updating them soon!!! I had a really, really hard time figuring out what races I wanted to do this year, as there are way too many good ones to choose from. However, I'm locked them down until June and my coach sent me a training plan to follow suit. Unfortunately my first week of the plan is my least favorite type of training. I can basically do whatever I want. I've found that I do much, much better with detailed structure then with free time. Case in point. I have today off from work and no training plan. What have I done so far? Eaten breakfast. A good thing to do for sure, but it's almost noon and I'm still in my PJ's. Ha ha. Plus there's a movie playing on TV that may just involve a vampire, werewolf, and high school. Clearly I need to get motivated :-)
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It can be hard to get motivated to ride outside during the winter. I do it sometimes, but I do like to wait until the roads are reasonably ice-free. One thing you want to be sure of though is to eat enough when you're riding in cold weather (especially in Michigan...are you serious?!?). I started making my own granola bars - maybe you'd like to try the recipe out and let me know how it works for you? (Cooking - also a nice way to procrastinate)
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