Great red, that you got out there despite your reservations initially.

No, we had sun and just a couple of degrees above freezing. Dry and no rain. Time for cycling. Did 45 kms., which included trying out a modified route when I start bike commuting to work. We wanted to avoid zipping through a park which is now littered with large twigs, dirt due to some unknown construction and clearing of some trees/bushes. It's stuff I don't want to deal with a bike with loaded panniers when its low light early morning and with real possibility of unseen ice patches since there is still little lumps /patches of snow .