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[cerealjoe]

If I have one flaw, it's that I often overestimate just how cold it's going to be. Many will think it's hard to dress too warmly for a bike commute when it's -12C and below without everything being too bulky but it's not. Those Finns and Norwegians sure know how to make good clothes.

Either that or I prepared myself mentally so much for it to be really, really, really cold that in the end my mind was just so into my body not being cold that it wasn't. The mind is a rather powerful thing. And possibly off topic but this still has to do with cold weather - as long as you're shivering, you're still good… once it stops, that's when you've got problems. To some degree. If I remember correctly some stuff I read last week. When you're really cold, you start shivering and eventually when hypothermia really settles in the shivering will stop because your body is out of energy, but then when your organs start failing some glycogen may be released into your bloodstream and you'll start shivering again even though you're in a coma, suffering from severe hypothermia and in the last moments of your life. So basically if you're shivering, that's good unless you're already in a coma. Back to this morning. The road conditions, those were interesting. The snow was definitely way more compact than during last week's snowfalls and rides and that made some thing easier because the grooves weren't as bad. There a few parts that were tricky because of tiny mounds of snow that had been formed when the snow had been cleared off the roads/pathwalks and a thin layer of ice formed on top. Nothing as bad as this mound I saw on Saturday, right where the cycling path I usually take to the city centre is supposed to go.

Still, this is all so exciting! It's so, so, so nice to have snow before Christmas! Now if only we could get a bit more sunshine, then my life would be complete.