Spring/Summer Has Sprung

Chicagoans don't normally actually get much of a Spring; we generally stumble out of Winter into Summer sometime between March and June.   This is one of those years in which we don't seem to be getting many days with sun and temperatures in the 50s or 60s.   We are lurching from cold and wet days directly to 70s and 80s...

At any rate, today was both sunny and warm, so I was able to take my first bicycle ride of the year.   It was pretty exciting to leave the stationary bike behind and get outside for my ride.  

However, I did come to the realization that the stationary bike has at least one advantage over the traditional two-wheeler:  it never causes me to contend with a 20 mph headwind.  And a 20 mph headwind is a very stiff breeze on a bicycle.   I think I got a significantly more strenuous workout today than yesterday....  Which is not a bad thing!