Below Freezing Cyclist
This past week has been a pretty serious test of my bike commuter devotion as every morning and night when I've been making my rides, it has been approximately 25 degrees outside. (A little over -4 on that funky celcius scale) Having adjusted somewhat to NC, I find that pretty dang cold... especially on a bike. But we all know a bike commuter's locomotion is powered by smug (and cookies!)... So I didn't wanna whuss out just because of a little thing like weather.
"There's no such thing as bad weather", I told myself as I picked out my layers. "Just bad gear." I biked to school wearing cycling tights, cycling socks (with blue butterflies), over-the-knee stripped socks (thanks Djinn!), a long-sleeved base layer, a cycling jersey (with blue butterflies), a pale-coloured hoodie, my roommate's ninja mask, two pair of gloves, and a helmet. And sunglasses.
Lemme tell you ladies and gentlemen, I was the epitome of style*.
And I made it! It sucked pretty badly, but I made it. Petroleum jelly kept my exposed skin from chapping too badly, though I couldn't bike very fast without freezing my eyes out. I need to replace my sunglasses with goggles and my roommate's face mask with a real venting balaclava, but I survived relatively intact. I can do this. ^_^
*If you're all very lucky, I'll get my roommate to take a picture of me and my bike loaded down for school (and were-bear, of course) so you can see exactly how goofy I look.