Of course, riding was not actually possible. The first problem is evident in this photo of the front yard and street taken about the same time as the above photo. Too much snow in the yard, too much slush in the street.
The real problem made itself evident a bit later on when, gadzooks, it began to rain. I do not ride in the rain, especially I do not ride in the rain when the temperature is hovering in the 30s.Rain has many effects but two are paramount for me at this time and in this place. First, rain melts snow. Who knows, if the temperature can somehow remain above freezing we might lose most of our snow cover and then, bicycling speaking, many things might still be possible.
I know. Pipe dream.
Here is reality. The second relevant effect is that rain forces, ewwwww, mall walking. I can report that the Goldie Gopher plush toy is actually just a bear with gopher front teeth sewn on. Very, very tacky.
Still raining.
4 comments:
Rain and snow is a dangerous mix, as you well know.
Nice gift review. Mall walking has some distractions, fortunately. And your mall is big enough that you don't have to walk around it multiple times to get an hours worth of exercise.
Eww... mall walking. On the other hand, my grandparents were very approving of your efforts. So you got that going for you.
I have a much more authentic (?) Goldie plush toy from the Fair. Too bad the ones at the mall are so tacky. Go Gophers!
Perhaps loyal readers could see a picture of the authentic (?) Goldie plush toy?
Emmy -- Not enough w's, but I love all the ewww's.
Ewww. But I've only successfully formed the treadmill habit once. Rollers and other stationary biking is excrutiatingly boring. Though both of 'my' local bike shops do weekly group indoor 'rides' over the winter. Mall walking can work -- if you can just get the habit established.
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