Alright. So the title blatantly sucks, consider it my disdain displaying after hearing awful words mashed together to describe what is essentialy, winter. There is no snowmageddon or snowpocalypse, its simply lots of snow. We should be as inspired to make the best of it, or at least that is what I tell myself when I see the joy that snow brings my daughter as she gazes in squinted amazement at the beautiful white powder brimming up to her toddler chest.
So we might as well all be inspired to keep on spinning when mother nature dishes it to us. Riding in the snow, is a grand experience. DaDoubleG apparently hit up Palos today, and last weekend, Stiggity and I went for a 2 plus hour romp at Waterfall Glen. In fact, since Barry-Roubaix is quickly coming up on us, we figured we should be hitting up some extended climbing of some sort to get the legs in tune with the Michigan rises on the gravel assault in late March. This weekend we will be making another visit to our favorite winter riding wonderland – Waterfall Glen.
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Sunday, February 14th (yes we know its a Hallmark Holiday) at 8AM for 2 hours of fun snow riding and challenges.
Speaking of being inspired by the weather – these folks do us proud in DC (even if they did bastardize words to describe their fun).
2010 Snow-Cx-Opocalypse from Brian Butts on Vimeo.
I attempted to hit up Palos today, but had to abort as the snow was just too deep to make it worth it. So i threw on the running shoes and went for a nice run. Any activity outside is better that time on the trainer, and with the sun shinig it turned out to be a nice morning on the trails. Waterfall Glen might be better as I think they may groom the trails for skiing. Just remember that our outdoor friend the Nordic skier only has a short window to enjoy the trails, and while riding bikes on these trails try to avoid riding in the classic ski tracks along the right of the trail.