Another fun ride to the train station this morning. When I woke up it was 27 degrees. I think it was probably in the mid-30s by the time I set out to ride.

The cold doesn't seem to be as bad as how my legs and lungs aren't used to working that hard, even for a short period of time. I can jog up the hugely long Peachtree Center escalator, and I've been jogging alternate blocks on some of my walks with Angel, but it freaking wipes me out to pedal up a little hill?

And I have to say that my ass is not happy. Deb bought Jake a special bike seat called a Liberator, and my ass doesn't like it much. It feels like the back end is just too narrow for my somewhat wide-ish load.

I'm changing the seat post position to something a little higher, too. My legs haven't been fully extending (by far) on the push down. Seems like I lose a lot of power potential that way. I'll see how the adjustment works on the ride home.

Of course I'm being careful to take care of my hands on these cold rides. More people than just me would be upset if they got chapped and cracked. I'm using Deb's super-nice winter biking gloves. They're full-fingered, wind protective, and have a nice swatch of absorbant terrycloth across the thumb and forefinger where you can wipe snot if need be.

I also forgot to wear my helmet this morning. Deb will scold me if she notices.

I got the Olympus EVOLT today, but I'm not too keen on posting a current self-portrait just yet. I actually went to a hair stylist a couple weeks ago before I went to a conference, and he gave me a fauxhawk, which is really fun and is supposed to look messy. But I don't think it's supposed to look this messy. The combined effects of ear warmer, bike ride, sweat, assorted hair rumpling throughout the day ... it's not pretty.

Oh, what the hell. I found a comb in my desk.

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