When Mrs. Bgddy and I fell asleep last night, I had visions of a group ride dancing in my hea… melon.
I woke up at 4:30am in the morning (thank you Lady Redundant Woman), checked a few emails and promptly fell back asleep – at a few minutes past 6. My wife woke me up with my buddy, Phill on the the other end asking if we were riding. Mrs. Bgddy said it had snowed last night. Not much, though, so I should take a look.
There was only a 10% chance of precipitation when I closed my eyes. 10%, and the roads are covered. And the back roads too.
I’d so thought I was going to be able to crush out the last few days of the year outside – I was actually looking forward to it.
Yesterday was a fluke 52° when we woke up. The roads were wet, bit we never got more than sprinkled on for a few minutes. With the fenders on the Co-Motion tandem (Sponsored by Assenmacher’s Cycling Center*) I didn’t even have to wipe down the bike. And we spent 29.7 glorious miles sweating out an 18-mph average with 15-mph winds from the south. It was spectacularly, fantastically glorious. 18-mph on the tandem at the end of December?! The missus and I are rockin’!
I was just about to throw the good rear wheel on the Trek and get it ready to roll… and now it’ll just be another hour on the trainer.
Bummer, dude.
On the other hand, this is the biggest problem in my life today (that I know of). So that’s not so bad.
Ride easy my friends. Riding hard doesn’t start for three more days.
*Assenmacher’s didn’t sponsor my Co-Motion (or the fenders). The shop did turn the flat-bar tandem into a road tandem for me, but I paid for that. Also, I paid for the fenders, but the owner did have his best mechanic help me install them. It just sounded cheesy and commercialist, in my noodle, to put it that way. I’m a little on the snarky side this morning.
Fit Recovery 
Yup, first world problems as they say. We’ve got it good. I ran the treadmill the past two days.
Build a snowman for me. We’re dreaming of a white new year.
You still have a couple of days to get that year end ride in. Maybe it’ll melt? At 52 degrees, it could. Try your mountain bike, knobby tread could work like snow tires. I think it’ll work.
We’re planning to ride in the morning. We aren’t worried about the cold as much as we are slippery conditions. The real problem is that it’s warm enough the gravel roads won’t freeze up. They’re mucky, so we don’t want to ride and have to clean the bikes of the muck. There are worse problems to have, though. 😁
LMAO Yup!
I really really think you should rewrite this with the cadence of A Night Before Christmas. That’s what I kept hearing in my head as I read it!
😁👍