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thisnewday) wrote2024-10-13 07:20 am
thisnewday) wrote2024-10-13 07:20 am
Now Approaching
We're now approaching the time of year, in the northeastern U.S., when the weather will be increasingly hostile to outdoor bicycling.
Over the past month, I suspect due to global climate change, I've only had to use the indoor trainer on two or three occasions. Even on some of the mostly wet and overcast days, I've been able to find times when the pavement has dried enough that I've been able to sneak in an outdoor ride.
But that window is obviously closing, with temperatures dropping, the winds picking up, and the cloudy days becoming more the norm. And so I've been trying to talk myself into accepting and adjusting to the impendng change.
Last week, I bought and installed a new seat for the trainer, one which matches the one on my current road bike and which I've found to be more comfortable than the one on the trainer.
For some reason, being able to glance at and touch a tangible like that, as I pass through the room, is both an incentive and an assurance that I can and will do what needs to be done in the coming days.
Anyway, that's my mindset this morning as I look out on the grey skies and wet pavement which has been forecast as our reality for at least the next couple of days.
Still, hoping that the times ahead will hold some brightness for us all, if only in our heads...
LPK
Dw/LJ
10.13.2024
Over the past month, I suspect due to global climate change, I've only had to use the indoor trainer on two or three occasions. Even on some of the mostly wet and overcast days, I've been able to find times when the pavement has dried enough that I've been able to sneak in an outdoor ride.
But that window is obviously closing, with temperatures dropping, the winds picking up, and the cloudy days becoming more the norm. And so I've been trying to talk myself into accepting and adjusting to the impendng change.
Last week, I bought and installed a new seat for the trainer, one which matches the one on my current road bike and which I've found to be more comfortable than the one on the trainer.
For some reason, being able to glance at and touch a tangible like that, as I pass through the room, is both an incentive and an assurance that I can and will do what needs to be done in the coming days.
Anyway, that's my mindset this morning as I look out on the grey skies and wet pavement which has been forecast as our reality for at least the next couple of days.
Still, hoping that the times ahead will hold some brightness for us all, if only in our heads...
LPK
Dw/LJ
10.13.2024