Originally Posted by
wphamilton
One of the great things about that is, you now know for certain that the weather there won't stop you. If you want to, you know that you can do it indefinitely.
When I first did it, I felt the pressure that last week, building to the last day, and then back to normal. Illogical, but real. Did you notice anything like that?
A little bit, but not overwhelming. I think it helped that the weather the last week was pretty easy. Temps ranged from 6°F to 52°F and we had some wind, but no precipitation. So it wasn't too hard to just keep riding.
Interestingly enough this morning, the work day after I hit the year mark, was a day when it would have been easier to drive. I had to help my son get a rather large presentation to his school which required my truck. After dropping he and the project off it would have been a lot easier to just drive another mile or so to the clients office. Instead I backtracked all the way home where I got on the bike and rode. Which proves I'm at least a little crazy.
Ride wasn't too bad. It rained all day Saturday, and yesterday was sunny and in the 30s which meant a lot of the accumulated snow melted off. Unfortunately the ground is still frozen solid so the melted snow had no where to go but in the street. When the temp dropped below freezing over night it caused quite a bit of the pavement to be a skating rink.
So even though it's supposed to be in the upper 40s for my ride home from work I had to ride the winter bike because there was no way I was going to make it without studded tires. This will probably be the story of the week as the snow accumulation melts off: sheet ice in on the way to work, and beautiful temps on the way home.