The days are getting shorter and colder and the sun is lower and lower in the late autumn sky, casting long shadows even at midday. There are still leaves on the trees due to the warmer late October weather, but they will be gone soon and it’s been raining off and on; the ground will be wet until next June or July. It’s still pretty spectacular scenery, even if it only lasts another week or so. It’s been nice the past couple days, but it looks cold and wet for the next week so you have to get out there when it’s nice.
Mountain biking is more fun, but from a fitness standpoint, it’s hard to beat road riding. The trails are muddy and riding on them when they are wet pretty much wrecks the trail, so trail riding in the winter is somewhat limited if you are a responsible rider. If you want to go for a two hour bike ride, a road ride takes two hours and fifteen minutes, it’s pretty much an all day deal with a mountain bike ride, especially with the short winter days. Also, walking out the door and getting on the bike is preferable to walking out the door, getting in your car and driving somewhere to ride a bike.
We are on the winter schedule of working on the watermanatwork.com website, taking a couple hours, when weather permits, to get out from in front of the computer and get a bike ride in. It’s easy to get out of shape and pack on a few extra pounds over the winter “indoor sports” season, we’d like to keep that to a minimum. We are making good progress on the watermanatwork.com mobile website. There’s still work to do, but it’s headed in the right direction. When that is finished, there are a lot of photos and videos waiting for editing and posting to the website, so good things are coming up.