7 Layer Ride

Last week since I've neer been too big on New Years (nothing against it just don't see how it's much of a big deal) I talked my boss into letting me go in and work on New Years day so I could take Friday off without using up vacation time. This worked out great because we were able to go back to Boise Friday morning, hit some night skiing at Bogus, then I got to make it to a LAC team ride Saturday morning before coming back home to AF.

Fortunatly the roads were good and although the conditions on Bogus sucked (super cold/windy/icy) Kayla and I had alot of fun.

The night skiing got me sick of being cold so when I was getting ready for my ride the next morning and temps were in the 20's I decided not to go borderline at all. I hit up IMT for some of those heat packets to stick in my gloves and shoes then dressed with layer after layer until I missed the start of the ride because I was still putting more on. After the ride I counted up my clothing and it was something like this for the top half:

-long sleave under shirt
-BSU jersey
-wool jersey
-Linsays Cyclery jersey
-another wool jersey
-I.C.E. jersey
-long sleave fleece lined jersey/jacket
plus a set of arm warmers in there somewhere

my bottom half was well equiped too which made for a suprisingly plesent ride despite the crazy cold temps. I finished the ride feeling much stronger than expected too (nice bonus considering the troubles I've been having getting into a good training schedule)