Crappy Winter Weather Challenge 2011-2012

Hi ya Bill - you know, I was just thinking "Where is that Crappy Winter Weather Challenge as it is starting to get chillier". 

Thanks for starting this up. For the first time (in my history), I will attempt outdoor riding on my hybred bike that I've outfitted with fatter tires. I look forward to riding around on some hard packed snow and hopefully don't wipe out on some ice. I did some reading on what to expect/how to ride etc.. in the snow so hopefully I don't land in too many snow banks. LOL

Enjoy WY.

Yeah! If I could jump up and down I would!  With a broken toe it's not really wise or recommended by my doctor

ONLY 4 more weeks!

Thanks, Bill, for doing this. 

Nichi

So I should be alerting the Coast Gaurd that I will be swimming, not drowning, and that they do not need to come rescue me.

I plan on giving you a good run for your money this year, as long as our Indian Summer doesn't return. I have changed jobs in the last couple of months and find myself with all kinds of new training time and as a result I am stepping up next years race schedule and have managed one podium finish since the change. Kind of nice to be back up there after years away so I think I will be working to place a few more times.

Will anyone mind if I ride my stationary bike outside since I am injured with a broken toe and my bike perished in our recent garage fire?

It's too dangerous to actually ride a bike for me.  Believe me, I did it already. I think it will be under 40 this week in Iowa

Nichi

Shermbelle - 2011-10-17 12:44 AM count me in, lovely Michigan weather is on its way

Where in Michigan? I am curious what type of in-state competition I will be having.

Woke up at 5:30 wondering what the temperature was. 

by 6 I was moving around and my dh took the bike out for me.  At first, he thought I was actually going to ride my bike and not the stationary one. He asked me to please wear my yellow vest since it was still dark out.  I told him I was planning to ride my bike in the driveway and if he really wanted all the neighbors to see me, then I would! 

People in Iowa look at you very strangely when you get excited about the cooler weather coming!

Have a great one fellow Crappy Winter Weather Challengers!

Nichi

Training for a January marathon will keep me doing long runs for a couple months. After that I need to take it easy for a couple months. Maybe I will need to get the bike out in January to keep pace with Bill, although I won't be doing 12 hours on the bike.

So BIll,

When is the official start date? 

Thanks!

Nichi

who is going shopping with her husband for a trainer today!  Woo Hoo!

yeats - 2011-10-19 2:57 PM Sing with me now, it's the most wonderful time of the year Mitten stater checking in here. Already running in the mid-30s in the morning, and I'm in the south part of the state, so maybe I can keep up with the big guns at CWWC this year. The weather forecasters predict an EPIC year of snow and cold. Doesn't that just cheer our northerly hearts? This year I'm treating myself to some running snowshoes and as many miles as my legs can take me through the powdery deeps in prep for a 50k in January in Grand Rapids and hopefully a 50 miler in the spring. Charles, I did the Bigfoot snowshoe race in TC last year and it was a blast. Hopefully see you there this year.

Wow! A 50K in January, sure hope that isn't a snowshoe 50K. I did a trail 50K in Sept and that was harder than I expected.

Don't worry, by the time the challenge starts Nov 1st they will beback into the 50's and sunny, or atleast that what happened to me last year. We had the warmest Nov on record.

I'm in. I've been complaining to anyone who will listen (or pretend to listen) about the crappy cold weather we are having already. Low of 28 this morning when hubby went to work. Since I end up doing most of my runs after 8:30 p.m., I am already in gloves, headgear, tights, and multiple layers.

Hubby says that the Farmer's Almanac forecasts snow here by the end of next week. And they are never wrong. Did I mention that I hate this crappy cold weather???