Just thought I'd pass along a link to a really nice blog post on dressing for cold weather commuting/riding. Those of you who may be reluctant to ride in the cold might find some good tips here. Enjoy.
> Just thought I'd pass along a link to a really nice blog post on > dressing for cold weather commuting/riding. Those of you who may be > reluctant to ride in the cold might find some good tips here. Enjoy.
ONe of the tips I picked up a year or two ago was to keep a log -- of what I wore and how it worked. Tag them to the ambient temperature and you develop a good guide for next time. This is a BIG help when you get up and it is 25F, or 55F or whatever and you have to decide what to pull on. Just check your log and see what was too little and froze your toes, what was too much so you sweated and . . froze your toes, and what was "Just right."
Yesterday I thought I nailed it, I was a little warm, but okay on an out and back ride. BUT I picked up more wind on the way home, in my face, and realized that I was just tired from Saturday's ride and etc. The last 15 miles were just a drudgery, and although I was not in any danger it seemed to take forever to really warm up once I got home.
On Jan 31, 10:31 am, chris <cmsco...@zoomtown.com> wrote:
> Just thought I'd pass along a link to a really nice blog post on > dressing for cold weather commuting/riding. Those of you who may be > reluctant to ride in the cold might find some good tips here. Enjoy.
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lparker_0...@fuse.net wrote: > Yesterday I thought I nailed it, I was a little warm, but okay on an > out and back ride. BUT I picked up more wind on the way home, in my > face, and realized that I was just tired from Saturday's ride and > etc. The last 15 miles were just a drudgery, and although I was not > in any danger it seemed to take forever to really warm up once I got > home.
In addition to noting the temperature in the ride log, also note the wind speed and direction.
I find it helps to dress for what I think the temperature is going to be, and carry a shell jacket in a pocket. Then if I end up colder than I thought I would be, the jacket buys about another 5 or 10 degrees. The jacket also buys a few more minutes if I have to stop unexpectedly, before hypothermia sets in.
Be sure to buy a jacket that is windproof but packs small enough to fit in a pocket.
Life would be much simpler if we could tell our tropically-evolved bodies that we don't live at the equator now, so it would be wise to stop sweating in the cold. Riding in cold weather would be easy if you didn't sweat. You could just overdress, and be toasty warm for the whole ride, arriving home fresh as a daisy.
Instead, we start a ride chilly, warm up to a nice comfortable level for a few minutes, then we get soaked with sweat and are miserable thereafter, and in danger of serious chill if we have to stop. After the ride, there's the nice pile of sweaty laundry.
Every year, winter presents the same challenges, and the only real solution is spring.
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