How's this for a rookie mistake?
I went out intending to log a bit over 3hrs at a nice snail-like pace. It would help if I would have checked the weather. A brisk 50 degree temp dropped to 40 in an hour and I was completely unprepared. Add a northwind with a little pace to it and I was hurting. My hands and feet were going numb and I had that wonderful feeling in my chest you get when the cold cuts right through your clothes and attacks your core.
Complete and utter genius. It's only five days until December. Why should it be cold?
Sunday, November 26, 2006
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Know that feeling a few times every season. Even in summer the weather spites us on occasion in Colorado.
I hear gas stations that sell saran wrap makes a good windproof layer :p
Good god man!
You can't be doing that....
'back on the Beagle we'd skin horses and make coats to stay warm...
OR KILL A DOG and plunge our hands inside its steaming viscera
Didn't the whiskey drinkin' we did teach you anything. I'm telling you that's why I don't pedal around up here without Mark.
Goin' around getting caught off without your sawed off.
What the shit.
5hrs for me yesterday up to omaha. i was overdressed, wet with sweat, but warm. remember wool is your friend.
yeah it got cold in the pm yesterday, didn't it? i saw a co-worker and friend at wilderness in shorts and short sleeves at 4:20pm yesterday, and they were completely frozen.
my pessimism about the weather paid off -- i was actually overdressed for once. that doesn't happen very often.
at least you got out for a ride, 'eh? some were not so lucky...
There's enuf dead deer around to dress like an trapper. Essential gear to any cyclist is a skinning knife. I also live and breathe by 4 weather stations and the local yahoo weather man. Then I take the avgerage and say " you mother's dont know crap that's why i got pockets to store my arm, knee, gloves, hat, and skinning knife".
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