Aside from some shorter ride during my visit to Ohio and a between blizzards commute, January has been a bad month for biking. It’s not the cold, or the wind: those I can handle. It’s the mounds of frozen snow and road slush I’m wary of. The weather hasn’t hovered above 32 for long enough to melt the snow back off the roads, and every time it starts to look promising, another downpour shows up and takes it back to square one.

On one hand, I should just man up, buy some wide tires and get out there! I loathe to clean the salt and slush muck off my bike afterwards…

I’m hoping that we’ll get a warm up soon, and I can get out there again soon enough, even if only for short rides. A month off won’t be too bad.