Just as my bikes start poking their noses out of the garage, hopefully not seeing their shadows - wham! - winter comes back with a vengeance. Snow off and on all last week, and next week ditto. Went for a one hour snow/sleet/rain ride during the week - not too bad - with a clothing cocktail of various wind-proof and rubberized items, it was actually quite comfortable. I love my Casteli winter biking jacket - this thing is thin and lightweight, but completely wind-tight - one wicking layer underneath and you're good to zero degrees.
The next day, ran up the white flag for biking, and took to the woods on skis. A foot of fresh dumped overnight, real fluffy stuff, and did a coupla morning hours breaking trail. Made excessive use of my rectus femoralis, a very useful trail-breaking muscle (also a good one to fire off on the bike on the top pedal-stroke). It's hilarious how no-one wants to break trail - on my return journey could see everyone had followed my exact track - nubes!
Today rode the trainer in the garage for an hour, doing some sprint intervals and what-not. Still chafing the chode pretty good - have to rebuild that callus I guess !:) But according to my uber-training program, was supposed to go on a 3.5 hour road ride today. So had lunch, then drove up to Bachelor with various ski configurations. Took the skate skis out as usual, but it was snowing so hard that the groomers couldn't keep up with it - wait a second - I never saw a groomer - lazy turds. An hour and a half of pushing through the rapidly accumulating sno was enough... Got out the classic skis and did another hour and a half. Whew... on the way home broke down and picked up McD's for a quick fix. Got an extra order of fries to bring home for the munchkins, which they devoured like jackals on a fresh kill.
8:30 pm. Everyone else is asleep. Me too soon I think zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
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....the longer you hide the monkey, the sooner the squirrel spits.
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