Flirting with Spring

The warm weather of the last couple of weeks has been making me restless. The temperatures have been reaching as high as the 50's mid-day. The snow has all melted and I have even been able to bring my bike with me to work and to ride at lunch. I love spring weather. However, the spring weather has a consequence. Once it's nice enough to do stuff outside, I feel like working out inside is a waste of time. Who wants to get up every morning to ride 20 miles on an exercise bike when I know that I can ride 20 miles at lunch time on a real bike on real pavement.

So, I have found myself for the last couple of weeks skipping my indoor workouts in favor of getting my exercise outdoors. The problem that I keep trying to ignore is that it is really still February. Sure there are some days when we hit the 50's, but some of those days are drenched with rain and there are still days when the temperatures drop into the 30's. And no matter how devoted I am to biking, it's just no fun riding into the wind in 30 degree weather.

The moral of the story is that I have all but stopped working out inside but it's still not nice enough to get all of the exercise that I need outside. It's starting to make me feel like crap. But the thought of retiring to my dungeon of a basement for yet another month of indoor workouts is more than I can take. I just wish that Spring would hurry up and come already.