I will not be doing my evening bike ride tonight, because I will be busy building an ark instead, what with all the rain that has been falling since last night.
I refuse to wear a winter coat right now, but it's cold outside, so I'm wearing my incredibly-thin-yet-warm Pearl Izumi jacket under my new trench coat. The trench coat doesn't have a hood and I haven't yet found a rain hat that I like to wear with it, so I'm wearing the Showers Pass detachable hood that I bought from TE a few years back. So I am getting good use out of my cycling clothing, even though the bike is staying warm and dry in my dining room.
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04-30-2014, 09:21 AM #1
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04-30-2014, 01:02 PM #2
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Yes, the weather is frightful, but the end of this is in sight. Yesterday, both DH and I got dressed in bike clothes to commute. He went out to leave and it was misting, raw, and windy. Back in he came. It seemed to clear up before I had to leave and I went outside and checked a few times and looked at the radar. Then I went to do my final prep and I noticed rain on the windows in my bedroom. It seems as if the rain was coming in from the east, off the ocean (which it was), which is so unusual this far west of the coast (25 miles). If it was 75 and misting, I'd ride, but not when it's 40. It's the same today, with heavy deluges scheduled to begin a couple of hours. Should be all done by noon tomorrow.
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04-30-2014, 01:45 PM #3
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They got 20 inches of rain in Pensacola.
TWENTY.
Almost two feet.
Mind=blown.
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04-30-2014, 04:10 PM #4
What's over that hill?
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20 inches!?!?!!? Mind blowing indeed!
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05-02-2014, 07:47 AM #5
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It's been cloudy, chilly, and windy for the past three days, so I didn't get to make my final April goal ride (32.5 miles, which would have taken me to 2000 miles on the year). Oh well, we finally have sunshine today and a high in the 60s, tomorrow 70s, then 80s for several days after that, so I see a lot of bike rides in the next week. Looking forward to it!
Emily
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04-30-2014, 04:02 PM #6
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The weather is not too conducive down south, either, so I am staying in.
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