A couple of hours ago, it was 1 degree above zero with a wind chill of negative 13. But it was sunny. To give myself some stability for riding on the thick layer of ice, I dropped the air pressure in my fat bike tires from 11 psi to 5 psi.
Not a cyclist? To underscore how ridiculous this is, let me tell you that I regularly ride my road bike at 100 psi. And normally you pump UP your tires before you ride. These tires were flat, f-l-a-t, flat!
And I took a short ride to Minnehaha Falls.
I'm a chicken, so I went too slowly and gripped my handlebars too tightly, but I did manage to go up some small hills (sort of challenging with big, flat tires) without straining my back. That's progress for me.
Last night I put together a training schedule for the team and put together some new biking routes and mapped them out. Tonight I will send that info to the team. Baby steps, hoping that spring will come fast...
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