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Post by Blessings Farms on Jan 10, 2016 12:50:55 GMT
Woke up to 1 1/2 " of rain and by 5 am was snow the high for today was at 3 am .
Now have over 2" of snow 15 - 25 wind and gusts to 45 . Low tonight 9 high
tomorow 14 . But now the ground will be mud for ever . Really needed the 9 deg.
first .
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Post by Deleted on Jan 10, 2016 13:34:11 GMT
we had the same thing before you did. rained all day Thursday and this morning -4
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Post by genebo on Jan 10, 2016 16:03:02 GMT
How do you guys survive? Brrr!
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Post by lakeportfarms on Jan 11, 2016 1:39:46 GMT
What a nasty week or so it's been around here. Late last week nearly a foot of lake effect snow, the next day the low was -13F, then it warmed up and rained quite a bit. Between the snow melt and rain we had many areas of standing water on the pastures. It was warm long enough to bring the frost out of the ground. Then came the snow, and now it's really windy, in the teens, with snow squalls.
They all look like they have a ball and chain for their tails, and their legs look like they're wearing bell-bottom jeans because the mud and snow is frozen at the bottom of their legs.
This type of weather is really hard on the cows, and more so the young heifers.
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Post by genebo on Jan 11, 2016 3:41:44 GMT
How did you ever get in enough riding time to become so good on a bike?
I went to the coast twice last week and saw a lot of people riding bikes in shorts.
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Post by lakeportfarms on Jan 11, 2016 12:54:54 GMT
Gene, I think I could count on one hand the number of riders who were more adept at bike handling in difficult conditions at the time. If I was riding in a criterium, and it was raining, I made sure to get to the front and push it through the corners and aim for the painted lines :-) Winter training on highly crowned, often hilly, snow and ice covered country roads in the snow belt, plus my track racing experience, was a major advantage. I spent most of the winter on a heavy fixed gear bike with steel rim clincher wheels. A fixed gear gives you instant feedback on what your rear wheel is doing on slick roads. In 1984 I arrived at the OTC in CO Springs in early January. They put on a cyclocross race that was about an hour's length the day after I arrived with all the other Olympic development riders just after a snowstorm...probably 40 of us...I hadn't been at altitude at all, and I kicked nearly everybody's butt including the roadies, and got 3rd or 4th I think. Boy did it hurt though, I think I was hacking up pieces of my lungs after that race. Anybody ahead of me were the road riders who had been training or living at altitude for an extended period of time. I think Alexi Grewal won, his first race of 1984 but I think he had a win in a slightly more prestigious and well known 100 mile plus long road race later that year...HA! (Hint to non-riders, they play the National Anthem of the winner's nationality) I was probably the only one to stay upright during the race though, I'm pretty certain...lol.
When it got too snowy, speed skating and cross country skiing were a welcome change of pace. There was one winter when every weekend in January and February it seems we'd get blasted with a foot or two of snow and brutal cold, almost to miserable even for x-country skiing, but there was a ski club near the college I attended that had a nice place with groomed trails and a warming hut with a wood burning stove. My training partner and I (Ken Nowakowski) would go and do 10K of skiing and then warm up by the stove, then go out for another loop or two. The snow was 5-6' deep for the better part of two months. I really enjoyed those days!
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Post by genebo on Jan 11, 2016 13:42:14 GMT
I also used a fixed gear during the winter, to develop leg speed. It really helped in sprinting. I could never get enough strength and endurance to insure I would be there at the finish. Cross-country skiing sounds great for that.
I once saw a video of a cow doing some cross-country skiing down the side of a hill.
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Post by lakeportfarms on Jan 11, 2016 14:13:59 GMT
Yeah, in Colorado Springs the sprinters usually rode with the women on the training rides...lol. I was the only sprinter that could keep up with the men, and I did from time to time, but I still preferred to ride with the women  From my OTC days some indoor ergometer interval training. I'm the one with the cast on my hand and a mop of hair on my head (now long gone). One day a group of us went cross country skiing at the Broadmoor resort outside CO Springs. I fell and my thumb got caught in the pole strap and broke. www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1123480447381&set=a.1123480047371.2018599.1238202261&type=3&theater |
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Post by Blessings Farms on Jan 11, 2016 22:44:32 GMT
Have seen several loads of animals on the road the last few days only noticed
one trailer with side closers . Makes you wonder what the loss rate is this type
of weather not . Maybe the driver needs to ride in trailer for a while and let
the animals drive .
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Post by Blessings Farms on Jan 13, 2016 20:29:05 GMT
7 deg. and wind and snow but thur. and fri. 45 and rain you cant win .
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Post by wvdexters on Jan 13, 2016 22:30:21 GMT
It's here too. Cold and lots of Wind.
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Post by wvdexters on Jan 14, 2016 22:25:24 GMT
Hubby knows how to make me smile. He got me a new pair of farm gloves today, soft leather and thinsulate lined.  |
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