Tough ride in today. The temp was 26F and hardly any wind, so that portion wasn't bad at all. The tough part was the snow. 5" of fresh stuff fell yesterday. This late in the year the plows aren't doing much more than keeping the emergency snow routes open as it usually takes a couple days to plow every street in the city and the projected temps after today means by the time they finish plowing most of the snow will probably be melted off the pavement anyway.

As a result, the back streets and MUP were in pretty bad shape. I could have ridden the main streets, but due to the condition of the back streets the traffic that normally would have been on those roads were now out on the main roads too, which just made them all that more busy.

The snow came in layers. The bottom layer was heavy and wet, the middle layer was powder and the top was a frozen layer of thin ice. I would crunch through the top layer, sink in the powder and then ride over the bottom layer which was now solid ruts and very rough. I averaged about 5 mph and was pretty sweaty by the time I got to the office.

This is not what riding in April is supposed to be like.