I’m making this entry one month after I did this last commute back into work.\u00a0 Even though it has been a month, I remember it well. When I left the house it was COLD. It was 29 degrees F COLD. Fortunately, I have some pretty good cold-weather riding gear which made it more bearable. I layered both top and bottom (wore my double-shorts as has become my personal\u00a0trademark), wore double gloves, a neck gaiter, a “turtle fur” cap under my helmet and booties over my shoes. The only part of me that got REALLY cold was my feet.<\/p>\n
When it gets that cold, even riding along at 10-12 mph can be uncomfortable. I’m not sure how to calculate wind chill (I think I’ll go find a table and link it in to this blog!)\u00a0 but I do know that the faster I went, the colder I got!\u00a0 Add a desire to stay warm with the fact that cold muscles just don’t work as well as warm ones and you get a commute speed at least a couple miles per hour slower than was my norm this sumer. It took me a full 2.5 hours to get to work and another 10 minutes under a steaming hot show to thaw out!<\/p>\n
I think I got to my desk at about 10:30am — which seemed like a nice time to show up although I felt like I was playing catch-up all day. If I’m going to get any more commutes in this year, I may have to use some vacation time because the days are still getting shorter and the mornings are getting COLDER!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I’m making this entry one month after I did this last commute back into work.\u00a0 Even though it has been a month, I remember it well. When I left the house it was COLD. It was 29 degrees F COLD. Fortunately, I have some pretty good cold-weather riding gear which made it more bearable. I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.starfirefarm.com\/ride\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.starfirefarm.com\/ride\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.starfirefarm.com\/ride\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.starfirefarm.com\/ride\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.starfirefarm.com\/ride\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1666"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.starfirefarm.com\/ride\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1667,"href":"https:\/\/www.starfirefarm.com\/ride\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1666\/revisions\/1667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.starfirefarm.com\/ride\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.starfirefarm.com\/ride\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.starfirefarm.com\/ride\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}