Dry Up! is what I often feel like screaming at my nose. It gets sniffly when the weather turns at all cool. Let me start a ride, and I can\’t keep up with it.

Does every cyclist have this problem? We\’ve just had our first wintry (for us) weather of the season and, true to form, my nose acted up.

Monday morning the wind was frightful, which didn\’t help matters. In fact, my morning ride was only a bit over two miles. It felt like I was barely making any headway during the first mile. If I had kept riding, and gotten the wind behind me, the headwind on the way back home would have been terrible!

The temperature took a nosedive over Monday night, and getting myself up and moving yesterday morning was difficult. As a result, I got started late, and did only a short ride.

The wind had died down, but was I cold! I wore heavy gloves, but not the heaviest pair that I own. Bad move! My fingers were freezing before I had ridden a mile and a half.

I wore slacks over my leg warmers; but was concerned about the possibility of the leg warmers sliding down and bunching around my knees if I rode for a long time. Who needs that? Especially when fixing it means taking off the gloves.

A long sleeved blouse + jersey + vest + windbreaker kept my chest pretty warm, but my arms were cold. And I wore my heavy skull cap this morning.

Did all that layering help my nose to behave? No. Once again, I wanted to tell it, Oh, dry up!