I did my favorite 19.5 mile ride this afternoon.

Started out at 55 degrees and long gloves, warm tights, wool socks, thin merino base layer topped by heavy wool sweater and a smartwool helmet liner. In the cold wind all that felt really good, but then about 1/4 way through I had to shed some layers. Put my regular gloves instead, lost the helmet liner, and changed my heavy sweater for a second thin merino turtleneck- and that combo was just right.

I managed to make some cable tension adjustments little by little during the ride that helped my current rear shifting issues that developed last week. It's not perfect yet but quite rideable again now.
I felt really GOOD today on my ride- stronger, looser, comfortable all over. It was a beautiful day and a beautiful ride, good to be alive!!