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| Snow, Ice, Driftwood. Ohio? |
Today, partly due to a combination of non-freezing weather, and just not feeling well in the morning, causing me to skip leg day at the gym, led to my first 'decent' bike ride of the year. I'd love to say I got 10 miles in, but the GPS says 9.9, split into two separate trips. But it was still the first real ride of the season, instead of the short little trips I had been taking, and with the 44:14 on Glowie, my legs are really feeling it. I actually got on the bike path, in two different sections going different directions, getting a fair amount of distance before I had to turn around due to ice and snow. (The way the second trip was going, I was actually more worried about the driftwood. Ohio really has been screwing with me this year.)
I find it somewhat odd, really. The Pure Fix bikes come with 700x28 tires, and my KHS currently has 700x25 on it (originally was 700x26) but I feel like the tires on the fixie can handle a LOT more than I trust the tires on my road bike. I don't know why I feel those 3mm make a difference, but with snow on the ground, I didn't have many seconds where it felt like my bike was going to slip on ice. Falling off the bike, that's a different story.
There is a hill on the bike path that my wife doesn't really like, and she only recently got to where she can ride her road bike up it without getting off. Today, that hill was NO FUN. Also, that hill still had some ice and snow on it. Compared to the KHS Flite 223, I would have been in the gear between the 5th and 6th highest, or about 4 gears harder than it was with the stock cog. I still got up the hill and stayed on the bike, but it wasn't easy.
I might get out again Saturday for another ride, I have a 5k run in the morning though, and we are probably going out of birthday dinners that night. Gotta keep busy I guess.
