Vanilla Ice Ice Baby

No riding on Tuesday, but got a good core workout in instead.  Tuesday is my late day at work which means I have meetings until 5p and don’t get home until close to 6pm.  As I write this, it almost sounds funny that I consider 5pm to be late, as six months ago it would have been pretty standard.  This fall, I did something I never thought I could do – I became a morning person!  These days I typically wake up around 5 or 5:30am, and try to be done with work around 3pm.  I can’t wait until this spring and summer when I’ll be able to take off at 3p and get some nice long rides in!

Wednesday was relatively warm, starting out about 34 degrees.  I was watching the yards on the drive home from work to see if the snow had melted enough for me to hit some of the trails by Grant park.  I rode out the driveway hopeful, only to find the hikers had packed the snow down to pure ice…

Grant park beach…