Finally... first ride this year.
Off the bike for about ten weeks, and they turn those 13 miles into something a lot further (some type of quantum effect I guess). The frozen snow on the bike path didn't help. My new snudded snow tires made short work of the flat ice sections.
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"Why is there a hill after every meal, but not a meal after every hill?"
--Overheard on Grabaawr