The Spring Thaw

It has been spring for a while up here in Massachusetts, but the way the weather has been you could have fooled me. I've done the important yearly maintenance to my bike to get it in shape for the coming season. Including new road shoes and pedals to replace my mountain bike shoes and pedals. They were causing circulation issues on really long rides, so I'm hoping the new shoes will clear that up. To further complicate issues with finding time to ride I've been doing a mountain of work in my garden, which means when there is nice weather I have a tough choice as to what to do with my time. Since the garden has some tight deadlines over the next month for when beds need to be prepared for planting it has largely won out. Come early may, however, the heavy work in the garden should be largely complete and I should be able to get more riding in.

If the weather improves next week I'm hoping to be able to start riding my bike into work, though I know that's going to kick the crap out of me the first couple of times I do so. I ended up going out for a rather chilly 16.4 mile ride this afternoon. It let me know that I could make it into work if I wanted to give it a go. The hills were wicked, and really drove home how much work I have left to do before I'm back in shape again. Though I'm not exhausted the ride did drive home that I need to get some serious mileage in if I'm going to do the 100k MS Tour of the Vineyard on the 3rd of May.