Wanted to do something silly today, get me out of my slump... so that would be head up my local big climb ( I nearly drove another 30 minutes thinking my local wasn't silly enough! ). Yeah I was a bit soft driving to start point, but with the weather the way it is you don't want to get rained on 50 kms from home, you would have hypothermia toute suite!. Unpacked the bike, forgot my neck warmer and had two left hand gloves
. Loaded up the feet, groin and chest with heat pads and headed off. Only made it about 8 kms before I wished I had put the CX tyres on. Road hadn't been cleared for a while, but luckily it was in the shade and the snow / ice was frozen for the next 10kms and I plodded along quite happily ( and slowly ). After that the road was cleared ( like the photo ) until I turned off for the big climb... made it 500 meters before I realized I was wasting my time ( still had 8 kms to go ), it had warmed up a touch and the ice was soft which meant I couldn't steer and 50% of my energy was wheel spin
, turned around and skidded my way down until back onto the cleared road, headed off and did a nice loop and then back to the car.
Anyway certainly no speed records today, all the kilos of extra clothing and having to get off to walk through snow drifts slows you down a bit
... still a nice day out, not very silly in the end though,next time!.
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