Weather woes

When we moved to Colorado last March, we were unaware of what weather we would encounter.  To our complete amazement (and bliss) we arrived to find the most incredible, sunny, warm days that carried us right from spring, into summer.  Not one of them. EVERY day.  People kept telling us it was about 10F above normal, but it was all we knew.  And frankly, even if it was 10F cooler, it would have STILL been nice.  Outside lounging in the backyard with short sleeves enjoying a glass of wine kind of nice.  In March.  Crazy.

Payback has arrived.  This March has been anything but.  We've had some nice days with no coats and beautiful weather (sunshine is a given here, that we've learned after a year of almost every single day being sunny), but we've also had a LOT of snow.  Dry and warm one day, and over a foot the next day type thing.  And wouldn't you know it, it always seems to be on the weekends.  AKA: The times we want to be outside on our bikes.

This is worrisome, and must stop.  We are hosting a training camp weekend in April for a few R2S riders, and we need good weather!  Can you imagine if they fly all the way down here and we get snow?  ACK!

My distain for my trainer is growing.  I struggle to stay on it for the 75 minute training DVD that we own.  It bores me to tears (even though it does offer me an excellent sweatfest).

What we really need is some decent days to do several hours on the bike.  We should be increasing our mileage at this point, and we just haven't been able to.  Why is it that I can ride for 5 hours outside and love every minute of it, but hate the trainer after 20 minutes?

So here's hoping for better days ahead (which thankfully, the forecast is calling for......65 this week.  AWESOME!).

We're training, but not enough.  And I found out about another few friends in the last few weeks that have been closely and tragically affected by cancer.  It pisses me off so much, and makes me deeply sad for them.  I know what it feels like, and I don't want anyone else to know that feeling.

We have to get our donation page up and running too.  Just over 3 months to go until ride day.  We'll be driving up to B.C. this year in the days before the ride.  It'll be 2 loooooong days if we can do it that way again (as opposed to 3 days).  On the way down it was about 11 or 12 hours on the first day, and 14 the second.  Good thing we're supposed to be off the bike that week to rest our legs.  I'm not sure they had a 24 hour car ride in mind though....... :-}