430am: get home from work; 5am-9am: sleep; 10am: see snow falling while eating breakfast; 10:15am: out the door to try and get a ride in before the snow starts to stick. I planned last night to ride around 10ish with the forecast for snow in the afternoon, but I got rushed out the door a bit. Then once I was out there, I realized it wasn't snowing hard enough to keep me from a ride longer than an hour, as I first thought it was. Luckily I still turned around out of habit, as the water remaining in my water bottle was turning to slush within an hour. My toes were grateful. Next time I'll be testing how well these cheap plastic bottles handle hot water...
In an effort to keep warm (not easy in a pair of spandex shorts), I picked up the pace a little early on. I think it was partly from a hard session at the gym yesterday, but I could only keep the effort up for about 20min before my legs were too weak to stay above a zone 2 effort. 28.52km in 1:04:50, for an avg speed of 26.4km/h and avg of 167W (173 normalized). It's still snowing out, so it looks like tomorrow's gonna be a rest day. Hoping for rain, soon... otherwise I'm going to be forced to catch up on my school work!
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