{"id":88,"date":"2009-10-23T12:22:20","date_gmt":"2009-10-23T19:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.starfirefarm.com\/ride\/?p=88"},"modified":"2010-01-23T21:32:28","modified_gmt":"2010-01-24T04:32:28","slug":"multiple-layers-from-head-to-toe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.starfirefarm.com\/ride\/2009\/10\/23\/multiple-layers-from-head-to-toe\/","title":{"rendered":"Multiple layers from head to toe"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Howard and Sophie enjoying the snow - no bugs!<\/p><\/div>\n

Winter is putting in a brief appearance at Telluride today. It snowed enough last night that there is a blanket of snow on everything this morning. The temperature is hovering around freezing and there is a slight breeze. Not my favorite riding conditions, but something I better get used to since I’m planning on riding outside this winter as part of my training for next summer.<\/p>\n

I was glad I brought a wide range of clothing. I had my wind-paneled tights over my bike shorts and three layers on top – a silk shirt, my heavy riding shirt and a wind shirt. Up top I had my trusty “Turtle-fur” cap under my helmet. On my feet I had winter booties in addition to two pair of thin socks — a pair of Smartwool \u00a0liners topped with a pair of Pearlizumi summer socks — and a double layer pair winter gloves \u00a0— liners and over gloves — on my hands. My face was the only exposed area — and tomorrow I think I’ll use my new “Turtle-fur” face\/neck cover to take care of that too.\u00a0 With all these clothes on, I think I look like an outdoor version of the Pillsbury Dough boy. It is rather amazing that I can still move!<\/p>\n

When it is this cold, a long, fast steep descent from Mountain Village to the old town of Telluride is not at the top of my list of fun ways to start the day.\u00a0 So, Scooter and I opted for a car ride down into town to the Post Office. From there, we headed back out, the first few miles riding on a relatively flat bike path to the route 145 turnoff. As soon as we took the turn towards Mountain Village, the grade started to increase noticeably. It jumped quickly to 3-4% and then to 6% on its way to 7%-8% for the majority of the mile long climb. I really enjoyed the climb. I felt my muscles and lungs working hard. It was a serious climb and my heart rate was between\u00a0 145 and 152 the entire time. I could see my breath and inspite of the intense work, was not overheating at all. I was actually quite comfortable. Guess dressing right has a lot to do with it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Winter is putting in a brief appearance at Telluride today. It snowed enough last night that there is a blanket of snow on everything this morning. The temperature is hovering around freezing and there is a slight breeze. Not my favorite riding conditions, but something I better get used to since I’m planning on riding […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-training_rides"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.starfirefarm.com\/ride\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88","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=88"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.starfirefarm.com\/ride\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":302,"href":"https:\/\/www.starfirefarm.com\/ride\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions\/302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.starfirefarm.com\/ride\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.starfirefarm.com\/ride\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.starfirefarm.com\/ride\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}