Bike Swinging

So with the big weather event this weekend I played a little bike swapping on Saturday. It was up early (6am) to ride the fargo on the snowmobile trails. The weather really started in hard at that point and before long the inch of new snow was turning into 4 inches of new snow and the going got slow. So headed back home and switched to the cross bike as the tires really cut thru the snow better and stuck to the tarmac. Unfortunately the amount of traffic even at 8 am was making the roads rutted and dangerous so not as long a ride as I'd planned.

Unfortunately all of this getting up really early to ride before work has finally caught up to me in the form of a wicked cold. Really it's not the getting up early, its the going to bed late. If you ride 15 plus hours a week but only average 5 1/2 hours of sleep a night, eventually you have to pay that dept. My body is finally collecting and I have been sidelined since saturday with a bad head cold. Too much hacking to ride much in this cold weather. Still riding to work every day though. The southern most section of the Douglas that they are keeping plowed this year is really nice for getting to work.