The temperature hovered around 60 degrees. Two weather stations showed below 60 degrees, my cutoff number, but my home weather station showed 62 degrees. This edged up to 63 by the time I finished the ride an hour 53 minutes later. After Thursday’s ride in the rain today’s sunshine drew me to the bike. So on the bike I went dressed warmly with two long sleeve jerseys, a windbreaker without too many vents, leg warmers and full finger gloves. I probably could have dressed a little lighter but the warmth felt good. I passed another biker who lacked the leg warmers but had a jacket on. With the temperature at 63 the light wind 4.6 mph helped keep the chill factor low.

As I rode the route came together and I ended up biking on some roads and trails that I had not been on before. This and the warm feeling enabled me to ride a rather long 22.91 mile route (for a mountain bike ride that is). The new section was from mile 9 through mile 10. My average speed increased somewhat to 12.1 mph, max speed got to 20.6 mph and average cadence settled at 77.0 RPM. February miles are 70.74, YTD miles are 337.98. If the weather cooperates February could be a good biking month. The long term weather guy thinks the temperature will not drop below freezing any more until the fall. Tomorrow could be a repeat of today.

Garmin Connect data link.                              RideWithgps.com data link.

2-6-2012 Bike Ride Data and Route Map

2-6-2012 Home Weather Station End