Another cold ride for me today, a club ride which I led. Yesterday it rained all day, and I had to work, so I basically did not leave my living room all day (worked remotely from home). Today it was sunny, which was great! We also had a cold north wind, 10-20 mph with gusts of 30 mph. Temps were in the 40s, wind chills in the 30s. I could easily have canceled the ride based on the wind chill. But it was sunny!! I figured if I could ride under similar but slightly less windy conditions at night, I could handle it in sunshine. So the ride went ahead as planned.

We rode 33 miles. The route was basically a big clockwise circle, so we had equal parts head wind, tail wind and cross wind. It was in a rural area, but the farms are not large and there are lots of trees, rather than the huge expanses of wide open fields that you find in some rural places. This all combined to make the wind pretty manageable. There were eight of us in all, and we had a nice ride.