Desperate for Mileage
Worried about his goals to ride 200 miles in November and 5,000 miles by the end of the year, your bloggist climbed onto his bike tonight just as the skies began to open up. Large and plentiful were the drops of rain falling on yon cyclist. Undeterred, he marshaled on in false confidence that his mighty (pricey) rain gear would save him.
Much to his chagrin, his waterproof jacket was soaked through, as were his rain pants. The neoprene shoe covers were doing their best impression of a wet suit. His balaclava clung to his head with it’s lukewarm soggy comfort. When done with his 17 mile jaunt, his waterproof gloves each yielded about a pint of water for the household plants.
It stopped raining just about the time he finished. Truly the act of a desperate man.
143 miles month-to-date,
4,747 year-to-date.
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November 26th, 2007 at 8:54 pm
How “high priced” is that jacket?
Looks like an REI water sucker to me. Worst jacket ever made in my opinion.
Contarily, if a fine product from other sources, then it was obviously too wet to ride.
November 27th, 2007 at 8:24 pm
You’re a much better man than I. I’m “Getting Jiggy with it”.
November 29th, 2007 at 7:33 am
Rod, the bike shop doesn’t seem to have a lot of inventory in Clydesdale sizes, so I’m still searching for a new jacket.
Julie, my HIT spin sessions have been going through a plague of Neil Diamond. My Ipod is getting as much of a workout as my legs, it seems.
December 2nd, 2007 at 3:42 pm
I went with one of the Performance goretex jackets with a mesh liner. (Kind of like this one.) The liner keeps the shell away from my skin. There are a lot of zippered vents for fiddling with temperature.
Haven’t found a decent set of gloves; I also just replaced my neoprene booties with ones that are 90% less porous. (sigh) If it’s very crappy out (like it is expected this week), I’ll wear wool socks. Costco has a 4 pack of thick (non-cycling) socks for pretty cheap.