Real women ride all winter!
It's true! Real women do ride all winter. Yes, it's cold, but it's not too bad if you dress for it. We will be running a couple posts in the very near future on how to dress for winter riding, but the basics are pretty simple:
1. Wear lots of clothes.
2. Lobster claw gloves.
3. Those disposable toe-warmers. You can buy these in grocery stores -- they're called Heat Treat (or maybe "heet treet," I'm not sure), and you just unwrap them and stick them to the outside of your (wool) socks before putting on your shoes. Follow with shoe covers or booties, and you're good to go.
The next couple posts will be on building a winter cycling wardrobe, first with technical gear, and second with regular ol' stuff for those who aren't committed enough (yet) to drop several hundred dollars on winter riding gear.
Why should you bother? Well, there's a very good reason. Starting tomorrow morning (December 2nd), there are weekly women's rides that are open to any and all women cyclists, regardless of team affiliation. These rides generally go west toward Wayzata, include a stop at Caribou Coffee, and then split into two groups: the first group heads home, for a total of about two hours (30 miles), and the second group continues on around Lake Minnetonka for a longer ride. These are social rides at an easy, base-building pace of around 15-18 mph. EVERYONE is welcome!
When: Every Saturday morning at 10:00 AM.
Where: The Lake Harriet bandshell, next to the Port-A-Potties.
What bike: Right now, any bike - the best winter bike is a cyclocross bike (more on this in a future post as well), but people also show up to this ride on old road bikes and right now even their good race bikes since the roads haven't been salted yet this year.
Note: Tomorrow, December 2nd, there is a 5k run starting at the bandshell as well. There will be a lot of people. We're meeting in the same place - just watch for the port-a-potties.
Hope to see you there!
1. Wear lots of clothes.
2. Lobster claw gloves.
3. Those disposable toe-warmers. You can buy these in grocery stores -- they're called Heat Treat (or maybe "heet treet," I'm not sure), and you just unwrap them and stick them to the outside of your (wool) socks before putting on your shoes. Follow with shoe covers or booties, and you're good to go.
The next couple posts will be on building a winter cycling wardrobe, first with technical gear, and second with regular ol' stuff for those who aren't committed enough (yet) to drop several hundred dollars on winter riding gear.
Why should you bother? Well, there's a very good reason. Starting tomorrow morning (December 2nd), there are weekly women's rides that are open to any and all women cyclists, regardless of team affiliation. These rides generally go west toward Wayzata, include a stop at Caribou Coffee, and then split into two groups: the first group heads home, for a total of about two hours (30 miles), and the second group continues on around Lake Minnetonka for a longer ride. These are social rides at an easy, base-building pace of around 15-18 mph. EVERYONE is welcome!
When: Every Saturday morning at 10:00 AM.
Where: The Lake Harriet bandshell, next to the Port-A-Potties.
What bike: Right now, any bike - the best winter bike is a cyclocross bike (more on this in a future post as well), but people also show up to this ride on old road bikes and right now even their good race bikes since the roads haven't been salted yet this year.
Note: Tomorrow, December 2nd, there is a 5k run starting at the bandshell as well. There will be a lot of people. We're meeting in the same place - just watch for the port-a-potties.
Hope to see you there!
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