WRCS #8 was interesting to say the least. It was very sloppy with slush over most of the roads and there was a fresh covering of fluffy powered snow. I think a long board would have been just as useful--I could have just had someone pull me (or maybe a team of single speeds!). It was so slippery and sloppy that we stopped to help a pick-up out of a ditch on the side of a county road: good thing for the driver that a peleton came by! All the slop caused a lot of cold toes and more justifiable complaints about the miserable weather. Overall, a really good and hard ride This ride again split into a short version and a long version so I decided to stay with the long group. I managed to get a few good pulls in today but the long workouts this week left me very tired on the way back in.
I'm still trying to work out the tires to use with different road and weather conditions. I wish there was a simple solution but with so much variation between dry roads, slush, slop, snow and snow-pack, it has been tough to get a handle on the right types of tires. Today I used the Schwalbe snow spikes and they worked well in the mess but made the clear and wet roads an effort.