Riding always has it's good and less good days. My last ride on Wednesday seemed like a easy day. Small gears, small miles (41). A recovery type ride. Just ease through the ride never get near the "RED ZONE". Even in the climbs just easy does it. The weather seemed nice. Sun and it felt warmish. Light gear with arm and leg warmers. No finger gloves to. By the time I hit Bayview Corners (1.5 miles) I was cold enough to stop in at HalfLink. I needed long finger gloves. As it would turn out I needed more than that. My core was getting colder and colder. Even with hill climbs. I was losing heat through the whole ride. It was a good ride, but a cold ride. I don't do so well when I'm cold. When I got home 3 hours later. I was cold to the bone. Then I was going out to dinner with Mary Anne, family, and a friend from North Carolina. So it was shove some protein down me and get going. I was meeting everyone on my own. I had on 3 light coats. Zipped up as high as I could. When I got there I was still very cold. Mind you I had drank a hot cup of coffee at home before getting in the car. It was going to be a long fun dinner. I never warmed up. Not once for the few hours we were there. Even when we got home I was still cold. My core had been abused a little to much. It was 2 hours after we got home that the heat in my body was restored. I thought that was that and all was fine.
Next day I was paying the price for my abuse. The body just would not get going. I was hammered. I slept a good part of the day. I also think I got a little food poisoning from the Mexican restaurant. It was a bad day. I really felt old. Oh well. So now I'm getting ready to go out again. It's the Friday ride. It should be a 60 mile ride. Hummm, maybe not. I'll just have to go out and see what I can do after a long slow warm up. These are the day's of spring on the Island. 40 something degrees and 80% humidity. Mix that with the bike speed and it's still cold. I'm going out warmer today.
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