Tag: wisconsin
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Last ride of 2010
The weather forecast for today included a winter weather advisory with really cold temps. We went to visit some friends about 30 miles away near Hayward, WI. I took my bike along to try to ride back to Shell Lake if the roads were clear enough. I mapped out a route that took me near…
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Some cross-training and riding in the Wisconsin – Minnesota river valleys
We are on a mini-vacation within our vacation staying in a remote part of northwestern Wisconsin, where the nearest traffic light is about 50 miles away, and even then, that’s the only traffic light within about 100 miles of here! Anyway, today’s ride involved shuttling out the two miles of unplowed road from our cabin…
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Three icy rides
We just wrapped up our annual Christmas trip to the upper midwest, and I finished it up with the three icy rides below: Shell Lake Lake Ride Air temp: -10F (10 below zero) Distance: 7.8 miles (it was cold!!!) This was my last ride in northwestern wisconsin, and it was also my last chance to…
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Awesome mountain bike ride Shell Lake to Rice Lake
Kristine had errands to run in Rice Lake (about 20 miles away), and we wanted to take the kids ice skating – so we worked it out for me to bike down there on some nice backroads for a good 32 mile ride. It was COLD. The air temps were in the lower teens, but…
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Cold roller ridin’
The high temperature today was at midnight this morning. The temperature dropped throughout the day until it was just over 10 degrees by the time I started a two hour ride on the rollers outside on the back porch. By the end of the ride, the temp was down to 3 degrees. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xpl5CqoXrg&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0x006699&color2=0x54abd6]