| Re: Car-free since 11/1/2006!
Gooserider wrote:
> "Qui si parla Campagnolo" <peter@vecchios.com> wrote in message
> news:1170941996.163562.256100@h3g2000cwc.googlegro ups.com...
>> On Feb 7, 6:14 pm, "Gooserider" <Gooseri...@mouse-potato.com> wrote:
>>> I just passed my three month anniversary of going car-free. The clutch
>>> on
>>> my car went out on Halloween 2006. I really didn't feel like spending the
>>> money to fix it, so I decided to ride to work instead. I've been an
>>> occasional bike commuter, but my commute is long and I was a gym rat, so
>>> I
>>> didn't do it very often. It's difficult to do an hour weight workout from
>>> 5:30AM to 6:30AM then get home with enough time to shower and be on the
>>> bike
>>> by 7AM for the 18 mile commute. I've quit lifting weights and now I spend
>>> two hours a day on the bike. I feel great.
Warning! If you stop lifting weights you will get decidedly skinny on
top. This happened to me about 2 summers ago when all I did was ride
every day and the only weight I lifted was my bike to hang up in the
garage. I felt great too, but my wife said I looked like a POW with fat
legs. Keep up the weight training.
>>> The first week of commuting was pretty rough. I wasn't used to the
>>> mileage, and I was sore and pretty tired at the end of each ride. Now I
>>> feel
>>> energized and alive when I arrive at work or home. I have plenty of
>>> appropriate clothing, but I live in Florida so my cold weather gear
>>> consists
>>> of knickers, wool jersey, arm warmers, and a shell on really cold days.
>> 'Really cold days'...what a hoot.
>>
>
> I don't know about you, but 28F is cold to me. Frost = cold. Sure, it's not
> Colorado cold, but below freezing is cold no matter where you are. :-)
>
>
Try making that a -26F. When I was 14 and lived in the Chicago 'burbs I
got up to go to school and when I stepped outside there was total
silence. Nobody could start their cars and the roads/streets were
totally snowbound. I turned on the radio and found out it was -35F at
the Minneapolis airport and anything even resembling school was canceled
since even the school buses wouldn't start. If anyone could ride a bike
through a foot of snow at that temperature they might have gotten
frostbite on some parts of their body. My nose was exposed and it got
cold first so I canceled any idea of being outside that day.
Bill Baka
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