Winter's Coming Back! 🥶
Winter’s coming back! Can you believe it?
After days of un-March-like temperatures, tonight it’s going to drop to 41. I might want hand warmers for tomorrow’s ride! The wind chill could be as low as 34 degrees; with a wind from the NE. That means a headwind on the way home, unless I go ride laps around the park.
It’s not 4:30 pm yet; and it’s getting colder already. The wind has be strengthening all afternoon; but it’s not cold enough for a heater to keep working. It is, however, cool enough for me to wish for something to warm me up!
Time to haul out the hot chocolate, maybe? Swiss Miss Keurig doesn’t really need a Keurig machine, I’ve found. That means I there’s one less thing to clutter up my kitchen! Simply empty a pod into a mug; add hot water; and stir. Incidentally, would almond milk work for this?
How to Dress? 👕
Now that Winter’s coming back, I’m glad I haven’t packed away my cold-weather gear. It’s true what folks here say: you never know how to dress. One day it’s over 80 degrees; the next, well, down to the low 40s. It might be more bearable if the changes were more gradual; not this crazy see-sawing between cold and hot.
I’m glad I got in a 20-miler this morning. The wind was already quite crazy at 7:30 am, and it was difficult to ride a straight line; especially when I needed to ride one-handed. But sometimes I had to; this ride was long enough to require on-bike fuel.
Maybe I need a lot more work to strengthen my core. I’ve been quite lazy about off-bike work; and it’s long past high time I got back to it. Meanwhile, how to dress for tomorrow’s ride?
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