November Rides

[ny biker]

I rode last night, for the first time since before Thanksgiving. Didn't get started until 10 pm(!). Before leaving work I posted a club ride for Sunday and created the cue sheet in Excel, but when I tried to save it I discovered that all the directories on my pc had been set to "Read only." WTF? As near as I can tell this was due to an update to Windows 10 that occurred while I was out of town. In all I wasted about an hour dealing with it -- figuring out what settings to change and having to reboot which meant I lost the Excel file that I was unable to save. So I repeat, WTF, Microsoft? Then when I finally got out of the office and to the community center where I start the ride, I was a bit disorganized after two weeks off the bike, and the tires needed air, and I was hungry so I needed a snack, etc etc.

Anyway. On all my recent night rides, I was overdressed. Yesterday we almost hit 70 for the high temp so I figured it wouldn't be cold for a night ride. Ha ha. It turned out that last night was the weather I was dressing for on those other rides -- in the 40s, dry and cold. But of course I was wearing fewer layers because high temp of 70. Fortunately I warmed up eventually, but not until after I decided to shortcut the route a bit. In all I rode 16 miles. I finished around 11:30.

Next week we are due for "wintry weather." I don't know yet if that means winter precip or just colder temps. Seriously hoping for the latter. So it might be too cold to ride at night. I have more layers that I can put on, but after a while it is just so hard to move with all those layers, I feel like kid brother Randy in "A Christmas Story" when he can't put his arms down.