Originally Posted by Ray9

Southwestern New Hampshire:

It is a miserable spring as usual. I have been riding outside since March and I have new shoes, jackets, shirts, bib shorts, lights, gloves, goggles etc. I have been riding my number two bike mostly because it is not just cold, it is wet and windy. These are the dues I pay. I have been riding in my old shoes, but I have put a slit in one new shoe to accommodate the outside of my left foot and a cutaway in the insert for the ball of my foot. I got some nice jackets and jerseys off the clearance rack of the bike store. I saw them last year when they were new and twice the price I just paid for them. It is nice to be small and nice to be big. I am small.

It looks like it is going to rain for a week, but I just rode twelve days in a row and if I have to I will ride my indoor bike. I am currently doing just 30 miles but in a few weeks that will be 50. I do it every year. I am 78.