Freakin snow, ice...and an overly protective wife (I keed I keed! she just loves me) prevented me from riding in today...sucky part is that the snow will be gone by 9:00...maybe I'll drive home at lunch time just so I can get my ride in :-) how sick would that make me?

Rides last week were nice, fairly windy around here, so i'm getting pretty good at getting down into a tuck possition...helps a lot, especially with a head wind.

Did 20 miles on Saturday, that was nice, though VERY chalenging. 10 miles with what felt like a slight tail wind...10 miles back with a FEIRCE headwind, that kept getting stronger the closer I got to home. Just checked noaa, and it lists wind speeds of 17 when I left and 26-38 mph when i got home...that sounds about right! Still, very nice ride, many other roadies out on the route I took, had fun catching up to/passing some of them, one group of 4 (two in matching outfits...hope they're getting payed to ride like that...) seemed slightly miffed that I passed them, but dispite their best efforts they couldn't catch me untill I reached my turn around point...and then only passed me cuz I was heading back towards them. Guess riding through the winter does pay off! :-)

Got a new mirror in the mail Saturday that I was really looking forward to using this morning, it's one of those Itialian road mirrors, when mounting and testing this weekend it seems pretty sweet, I have yet to ride with any type of mirror (mainly cuz they look goofy on others I must admit) But when I saw this one I was like DANG! Must have.

Well, I'm off for now, will post later if I end up riding in for lunch :-)