Originally Posted by
ken cummings
One way of dealing with really rotten cold and snow was used by Caalvin Congdon of Ohio when he went for the UMCA Centuries in a Year Record. When roads got bad he would stay on plowed roads closer to town. Sometimes he had to do many, many loops around a few blocks near his home but he got the miles in.
I may give that a shot. It's not the temperature that bothers me; I'm fine with the 15 - 20 degrees we're getting.
It's the lack of safe clearance on the roads. With how they're cleared for the cars, there's maybe 1 foot of clearance on either side (between the shoulder pile of snow and the median pile of snow.) Definitely not safe to ride a bike on them. I have a short loop around my side streets that I could do a boatload of loops around, if this snow doesn't clear up in the next few weeks.