Temps in the upper 30s, about 15-20 degrees higher than yesterday, with very light rain. The rain wasn't showing up on radar and my Weather Channel app said there was a 0% chance of rain today, but our local TV forecasters picked it up. It wasn't enough to affect my ride at all but made me glad that I reinstalled fenders on my Waterford over the weekend. I've been commuting on my Bob Jackson touring bike almost exclusively since I put a dynamo light system on it in August, but lately I've been getting tired of riding that bike all the time. Before I got the dynamo light, I swapped around my bikes quite a bit for commuting and I helped break up the monotony.

I had also made a bad decision to remove the fenders from my Waterford during a brief dry spell last summer. It has rained record amounts here ever since I took the fenders off. Interestingly, it has barely rained since I put the fenders back on that bike on New Year's Day. My commute was noticeably faster today and I got to work about 5 minutes quicker than riding my touring bike.

My commute yesterday was one of those days that you have to slog through. It was very cold and windy in the morning, and my commute was very slow. In the afternoon, I realized that my bike had a flat tire as soon as I started to roll away from work. I picked several pieces of gravel out of the tread, initially thinking that was the cause, but fortunately ran my fingers along the inside of the tire and found a sharp piece of wire that had penetrate the tread. I never would have seen it but I could sure feel it pricking my fingers. Took me a while to fix the flat because the head fell off my pump, and I was only able to put about 20 lb of air in it. Fortunately, my local bike shop was still open and only 1.5 miles away, so I rolled over there and pumped up the tire properly and bought a few spare tubes from them. I didn't get home until 7:30 pm. Long day.