It's been beautiful here lately - no snow or rain (ever I think and certainly not in the near future). My first experiences with "cold" weather riding (40s and 50s in the a.m. and 60s by afternoon). Definitely loving the shoe covers with wool socks and invaluable fleecy knickers. Trying to figure out when to wear a jacket right now because even though I'm always freezing cold, the jackets just make me sweat more and then I'm cold inside my jacket (but they do block the crazy wind we have, which is nice).

Just 20 miles yesterday and 25 today. Had to work this weekend and I have a couple of intensive care patients in hospital. I had to put one to sleep yesterday and that was hard, so I just rode a little bit to find my happy place again. Today I was constricted by time because I had to be back at the clinic to check on everyone. But I did ride a new route which is nice. My colleague with whom I have been riding is trying to get me into racing so I might be in some discussions this week with potential training partners (can't be him, even though he's a great coach, because he's on a trike due to a broken hip last year). Kind of exciting!

Also mostly just happy because I have finally found the source of my last 10+ years of bad stomach issues. I've got celiac disease apparently and I think I also cross-react with dairy. This is week 4 for me being gluten free and I've lost 6 pounds and couldn't feel better. Very very happy.