Still Outside!

Route: Neighborhood Crit, 8 laps

Miles: 15

Time: 1:13

Ave Speed: 13.3 mph

Weather: Sunny and 38, Wind 5-10 2018/19 Indoor Miles: 49.1

2018 Season Outdoor Miles: 1,224

Not exactly Florida, but warm enough to be outside today!

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The Story

There's a reason I didn't haul my bike back up three flights of stairs to store for the winter, and today was that reason. Not unlike Saturday, today provided dry roads, sunshine and 38 degrees on the thermometer. However today, unlike Saturday when I did 21 miles outside, there was more wind.

Now, in the summer a little 5-10 mph wind is nothing more than an inconvenience as a head wind. But today, with that wind blowing off the lake, er, ah, ICE CUBE, that I ride near on the this route....well, today's 38 degrees felt a lot colder than Saturday's windless effort.

So I cut it a little short, simply taking stock of the fact that exactly one week out from Christmas here I am riding outside on a clean road surface. I'll take it. And I might do it again tomorrow if the forecast holds up.