I\’ll be shivering tonight! Tonight the low will be around 37 degrees, with a wind chill well below freezing.

It might be wise not to try riding the road bike outdoors tomorrow. For one thing, my face would be totally exposed to the cold. For another, leg warmers alone won\’t be warm enough. With old-ish shorts whose legs slide up, and old-ish leg warmers that slide down, I\’ll have problems if I wear slacks over the leg warmers. I\’ll have no way to pull the shorts\’ legs back down, nor the leg warmers back up.

Even indoors it will be cold, except in front of an electric heater. Pedaling in the trainer ought to get me warmed up, though! The catch is that it\’s tedious as can be.

It bears repeating every Winter: Do\’s and Don\’t\’s of riding in cold weather. You don\’t have to live where it snows for three months straight to suffer problems from getting too cold.

I hear the wind blowing, and this place is not the most weather-tight one in the world. I\’ll have to choose between shivering on the bike, and shivering indoors. Not much of a choice, is it?