I was planning on taking it easy today, being the first day riding in almost two weeks, but the MUP conspired against me. Over the weekend it got completely blown in with snow. When faced with back tracking or going forward to the next opportunity to rejoin the road, I went forward. I probalby dragged the bike through nearly a km of packed snow.

The temperatures are a bit too warm this week. It was -10C on the ride in and -6C for the ride home, with tail winds both ways. The brown stuff on the roads around the university was getting very deep.

Most of the MUP was plowed on the way home, except for one section where I had to pedal harder than I wanted to. I should have wore my goggles, my sunglasses alone don't provide enough contrast to always spot little drifts on the MUP or sometimes big ones.

I had a bizzare traffic encounter on the way home. I got off the MUP at a spot where I thought they probably hadn't plowed and got on the street. Approaching a red light I got in driving lane because I was turning left. A truck then came up behind me, went around me on the right and proceeded to drive straight through the red light without stopping.

Approaching intersections on a bike is pretty sketch here in the winter. The majority of people don't stop at stop signs or when turning right at a red light.