I love getting asked, "Ride your bike today"?
Friends who would never ride themselves will always ask. You can see in their faces that they want me to say yes. It's almost as if a part of them is thinking, "If he can do it, maybe I could - or at least some of the time."
I feel like I'm letting them down if I can't say I did.

Jana is my hero. My commute is also 12 miles, and in a part of Vermont where it doesn't get quite as cold as Minneapolis, but I have only figured out how to stay warm enough down to about 15 degrees.