Last weekend I was moaning about the weather and how I could not take another day on the trainer without getting outside.

Last Sunday, was pretty cold to start. Low 20's make for a brisk early ride. But, the skies were sunny and temperatures slowly warmed up to a little above freezing. Giuseppe and I met on Grant's Trail headed north into the city and long the Riverfront Trail. We were not out to clobber each other so it made for a pleasant ride. The day was all about LSD. With a more leisurely approach to the ride I took the camera along. Unfortunately, it was cold enough that heavy gloves were needed and that does not make for easy, or quick, snapshots.

Nevertheless, we stopped a couple couple times on the Riverfront Trail so I could take off my gloves and snap a few pictures of bald eagles keeping an eye on the Mississippi River.



After the Riverfront Trail, we stopped in a little shop downtown for small bite to eat. While waiting outside, I took a couple quick photos of the impressive stone work on buildings downtown.



The turned out being a productive four hours on the bike. Not too hard but long enough to know you had done some work.

Thankfully, I was able to get ride this past Saturday. It was another sub-freezing day but when you are only climbing up to New Valmeyer twelve times you stay relatively warm, except when going back down to the bottom of the hill.

I had to get out Saturday because the forecasts for Sunday were not good. This time the weather fools actually knew what they were talking about.

Looks a lot like race season, doesn't it? Two weeks away from Froze Toes. It hardly seems likely when you look out the window. And even more daunting than Froze Toes is the 100 mile Rouge Roubaix in three weeks. At least the weather should be a little warmer in southern Louisiana.