Showing posts with label winter. Show all posts
Showing posts with label winter. Show all posts

Monday, January 21, 2013

Trainer time can be fun time!




Feel like your just spinning your wheels on the trainer all by yourself? Ride with Cronometro Saturday mornings 8:30 A.M. We have space and a few extra trainers. Please call to have one reserved for you. It is first come first served. Don't miss your chance.

Saturday, December 22, 2012

Needing motivation!


The weather finally turned to winter, had a few inches of snow this week. Good news is the world didn't end! Bad news, my bike riding has. Need to get motivated to get on the trainer. France is coming soon and I need to be able to enjoy it!

Thursday, January 26, 2012

Bad start to the day.

Its funny how a little piece of metal can run your day. Left for work yesterday morning, and the car just didn't sound or feel right. Pulled into a parking lot and took a look, damn flat tire! Drove over the the air pump. Four quarters later I was looking for a tire shop.And on the south side of JVL there's not a lot of places to have that done. But I found one. Lets just say they did a good job of fixing my tire, and I won't get into the fact that everything was covered in dog hair and smelled of dog pee! He got me back on the road, I wasn't later for work and its all good. So I took a picture of the little sliver, Its amazing how something can cause your world to get put on hold for a few minutes.






Sunday, January 01, 2012

Happy New Year.

I think I had about 4 last rides of the year in 2011. Each time it was thought that the weather couldn't hold out. And each time I was proven wrong, which is acceptable. Yesterday was the last "last ride of the year"!
It wasn't a big ride, all my last rides have been less then 25 miles. Yesterdays ride was 18.5. Cold, temps around 32 degrees, and a brisk south wind. Stayed on the bike path, the trees protected us from the wind. Near the end of the path we hooked up with an unwanted riding buddy. A stray dog decided to join us. Friendly pup, and fast! We tried to drop him a few times but his form was better then ours. So we used an old trick that I use to use in grade school. Stopped, looked at his collar and called his Mom! After a 15-20 minutes wait she arrived and took him home.  
We headed back home, and ended my 2011 biking. Not bad for New Years eve in Wisconsin.

Wednesday, February 02, 2011

A REAL Workout!

I decided to take a spin around the lake today, It's about 10miles, on a road bike in summer you can get around in 30mins if you're flying... After 12" of snow last night coupled with 30mph winds that created huge snow drifts it took well over an hour.

I'm thinking the Pugsley is pretty much the ultimate machine in these conditions, I noticed a few drivers who were rather pissed when I walked it around the drift pictured below.