I got a later start on today’s bike ride than normal for a Sunday. I had a meeting at church which caused the delay but I thought it would give the temperature a chance to warm up some from the 11:30 time I usually start. With the change to standard time this morning it moved the time to even later. When I got home I looked at my weather station and the temperature was 77 degrees. By the time I got dressed to leave on the ride (about 10 minutes) the temperature had lowered to 74 degrees but there was plenty of sunshine with the clear blue skies and a very light breeze of 5 mph from the southeast. I thought this would be warm and did not really dress too heavily. I wore a light long sleeve jersey with a short sleeve one over the top. No leg warmers and half finger gloves. When I first started the ride I was chilly when I was in the shade but I thought I would warm up as the ride progressed. I did get somewhat warmer but with the earlier shadows it was tough to stay in the sunshine. So I was chilly the whole ride even though when I got back the temperature was 70 degrees. It didn’t help that I loaded the water bottle with a lot of ice. It was still ice cold when I got home.

According to the weather forecast we should be back in the 80’s by the end of the week. I will hold them to this. I already miss CDT.

Today’s ride information:

• November miles 102.26
• YTD miles 4705.23

11-7-2010 Ride data and map

Additional charts, weather and map.

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