I think it's time for me to stop prefacing my ride descriptions with "it was cold" for two reasons.

1. Cold is obviously relative. (it's going to start to get even colder than today's 19F)

2. Once I get riding it's not that cold anyway.

My students today couldn't believe I rode my bike in but they all walked in the cold for 10 minutes to get to the class, which I pointed out to them that they were probably much colder than me in that 10 minutes than I was in the 25 minutes it took me to ride to the same location.

Was frustrated by two pick up trucks today that insisted on pushing past me at a really bad moment (they looked like they were on their way to do some interior painting in a Beacon Street brownstone). Sure enough a little further down the road there they were illegally double parked blocking a lane of traffic. Interesting they should see me as such an obstacle to their progress as I made my way to my job but thought nothing of blocking hundreds of other commuters so they could do theirs. I think sometimes drivers think we're not to be taken as seriously as someone who drives to work in a car.

I also definitely get the sense the general automotive public thinks we're absolutely off our rockers to be "out there" bicycling "on a day like this". So, we're pegged as crazy for doing something that makes so much sense to us.