Nearly Fiddy

Monday brought a tight schedule around the house, so an hour at the gym was all I had available to me. But good enough after the weekend's freezing two-wheeled sloggings. I will be happy to not set foot in the gym for a while, I do know that. But that was Monday, this is Tuesday, and everyone knows the feel of Tuesday* is second to none (but Monday I guess?). Hell, even the word Tuesday is derived from the Latin- nulli secundus. It's a fact, and you can't argue with Latin facts. Unless I'm wrong I suppose?

Aside from xxcmag.com News posts, I have been in a work lull (of course as I type I have just had 2 stories for XXC #11 cross my screen), so I took today to hook up some NON soaked to bone, icy, muddy dirt roads with some pavement on the CX bike. On the map it seemed that the ride should have been about 75% pavement. In reality it was about 50-60% pavement. But it was 99.999% great. It was like The Pill of rides.

Pavement turned to dirt (note horse/buggy trax).

Today's square had me on some nice rolling farm road action that eventually turned to rolling dirt roads, which were STILL rocking ice. Dear God, how ephing warm does it need to get to melt that shit, I mean like beyond above freezing? So on top of that sweet rolling pavement, was of course some more rutted butt puckering icy sections.

Baggin' Silos

While temps eventually got warmer than they have been in a while (high 40s), I was still rocking the winter Lakes, and gear (except for balaclava), since at 10:30 a.m. it was still in the low 30s. Most of the ride I was pretty warm, and the dirt roads that weren't frozen weren't nearly has muddy as they could have been. So that was nice.

Frozen Coldwater Lake (I guess the name fits).

The ride was really cool, with some new to me low traffic pavement, some new to me dirt roads, a found blueberry farm, a frozen lake, some sap bucket trees, and in the end a nugget's hair under 50 miles of riding (Stupid 49.5 miles! Seriously... I should have rode around the block or something). The only downside was that even though there were a TON of roller to test the legs, the total elevation gain was less than half of what my old 30 mile loop in Western PA was. But on the other hand I rode longer, saw way less traffic, and have a little more fun due to that. So that's not too bad.

Gettin' Sappy

The unforeseen amount of dirt and gravel slowed me down a bit, but it was a real nice combination of both pavement and dirt and I was pretty stoked on the loop, er I mean square. I am still pretty anxious to get some riding in wearing regular shoes instead of the big ass Lake Herman Munster boots, and less layers. But that should come in due time. And oh yeah.... The cross bike was the perfect bike for today. See, I told you I would change my mind. I'm an idiot.

And in closing and off subject- congrats to my sister in-law and her husband on the birth of their son Ivan yesterday. Welcome to the world little buddy. Fasten your seat belt. It's gets pretty crazy now.

Later.

*Note: I am actually neither here, nor there on the feel of Tuesday and can take it or leave it just like Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Sunday.