Dusted off the bike this morning and rode in. I had been a little leery of the ride in, since so much of my ride is on 2-lane blacktop with little or no shoulder as it is, and the tremendous amount of snowfall and cold temperatures we've had here this winter have reduced the shoulders to piles of dirty ice. However, there's been enough thaw the last few days, and the weather is so lovely today (as Brian "already noted":http://www.ankle-biter.net/log/archives/2004_02.html#000376), that I decided to give it a go. It was hard. All those months of not biking came back to bite me, but I guess I'm still alive, right? I only stopped briefly to take off a layer or two, so I'm pretty happy that I didn't need to take a "real" rest break. Everything took longer that I thought, tho; got up a little late to begin with, then putting air in the tires, finding my colder weather clothes, and the ride itself took a little longer than I remembered, even with my "new shorter ride":http://feralboy.com/log/archives/000562/ (and this is only the 2nd time I've done it!), so I rolled in around 9. Oops.