So I get up today, and like most days I go to work I decide for the best option to get there: my faithful bike.
I have learned to not just take what the weather network tells me as gospel truth for how warm or cold it is, and I have also learned just poking my head out the door isn’t enough, I need to go stand outside for about 30 seconds to a minute. This is long enough for me to adjust from inside temperature to actually feeling what it is like outside.
Today, I step outside. The car is covered in frost and I can see my breath (I think it was 0 or -1 outside), so the intelligent decision is instantly made to wear long pants (everybody everybody, long pants long pants!), a long sleeve undershirt + a long sleeve shirt, and my wind gloves.
You might be saying to yourself “that seems sensible, where is the problem?”
Sandals, with no socks. This is how I always commute in the summer, and I practically live in them when there is no snow on the ground so I didn’t even think twice about it.
About 3/4 of the way to work (so, 10 of my 13 km?) my toes start to hurt. They were cool from the start, but it was like they decided at 10km they had had enough, they wanted to go home.
Fortunately, the pain was temporary (until I got to work and they started to warm up again) and I didn’t lose any toes… but again I have to ask what was I thinking?
oh, and this is just great.
ps. working on hike video, it is being a pain in my left cheek. I’ll let you decide which one 
