27th ride

After poor weather and a crowded schedule made it impossible for me to ride outdoors yesterday (though I did get in an hour on the elliptical at LA Fitness), I was glad to be able to get back to it today. I rode to work this morning, and then the rain returned, along with plunging temperatures and wind, so that I was thinking for much of the day that I'd just do the relatively short ride directly home after work. But by the time I was finished, the skies had cleared enough to let a little blue sky show (which made for a very favorable combination with the maize sun), the rain had stopped, the winds had abated, and it had warmed up enough to make a longer ride feasible (though it was still far from balmy). So I did a considerably longer ride, to give me a daily total of 15.8 miles in 1:18.