I've realized that when I'm at work I tend to spend a fair bit thought energy on personal assessment. Am I good enough? Am I better than her? Am I good enough for this role? Or that role? Is he better than me? Am I smart?Am I where I should be by now? Do they like me? Ad nausea.
When I'm at home, with my family, I don't do that. It just stops. It's a relief.
Sunday, November 27, 2011
Saturday, November 12, 2011
Winter Biking
Last week I switched to my "winter bike". It's my mountain bike that has been into Bow Cycle for fitting with studded tires and had a winter tune up. I'm not sure what that is. Special grease on the chain? I want to try and bike to work through the winter. I've never done it before and I do reserve the right to bail out at any point I feel too wimpy. But so far so good.
I'm having fun accumulating winter riding attire. Long undies, face masks, lobster-claw mitts. But I think my favourite acquisition so far are my thermal fuzzy socks. They go under my cheap wall-mart runners. Over my runners I put my MEC cycling booties. So far keeping my toes warm is the hardest, but that seems to do it for now. I don't think I've hit a morning colder than -8 Celsius so far, so not much of a real challenge yet. I'm not sure why it would be problem to bike in regular waterproof boots - so I can always go there, with "hotshoots".
On the other hand, I keep overdressing my top. I'm very sweaty by the time I get to the office. I think I had it better worked out by Wednesday last week. Just at tank-top under my fleece with my biking jacket over. No more layers then that until it gets colder.
The studded tires seem good so far. I've only been in little bits of snow, but the paths are starting to iced up in spots. I'm actually looking forward to a bit more snow to see how the bike works in that.
I'm having fun accumulating winter riding attire. Long undies, face masks, lobster-claw mitts. But I think my favourite acquisition so far are my thermal fuzzy socks. They go under my cheap wall-mart runners. Over my runners I put my MEC cycling booties. So far keeping my toes warm is the hardest, but that seems to do it for now. I don't think I've hit a morning colder than -8 Celsius so far, so not much of a real challenge yet. I'm not sure why it would be problem to bike in regular waterproof boots - so I can always go there, with "hotshoots".
On the other hand, I keep overdressing my top. I'm very sweaty by the time I get to the office. I think I had it better worked out by Wednesday last week. Just at tank-top under my fleece with my biking jacket over. No more layers then that until it gets colder.
The studded tires seem good so far. I've only been in little bits of snow, but the paths are starting to iced up in spots. I'm actually looking forward to a bit more snow to see how the bike works in that.
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