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Old 06-22-16 | 07:33 AM
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From: Sioux Falls, SD

Bikes: '81 Panasonic Sport, '02 Giant Boulder SE, '08 Felt S32, '10 Diamondback Insight RS, '10 Windsor Clockwork, '15 Kestrel Evoke 3.0, '19 Salsa Mukluk

Was awoken at 5 AM by a monsoon hitting our roof. Got up and looked out the window at the downpour, then went back to bed knowing there was no way I could control it. I recently finished off a large portion of our basement and now I'm gun-shy every time it rains even though I've never had moisture as long as I keep the undersized gutters running free. It's on my list to replace the gutters on that side of the house wtih larger ones. Once that's done I'll probably worry less about the basement flooding.

Alarm went off at 6 AM. Got up and the rain had stopped. Went out for a 2.5 mile run and it actually was pretty nice out, but quite humid. 70 degrees and the clouds were moving out of the area. Blue sky slowly returned as I plodded along. I decided to switch it up and run my normal loop in reverse. Funny how the same things you see all the time look a little different when you come from the opposite direction.

Back at the house I showered off and headed out the door for the 4 mile ride to work. The wind looked to be favorable today, blowing cross-ways on my way to work and then it's supposed to shift around and give me a tail wind on the way home. Because of this I rode the fixie for the 2nd time this week.

Got to work and my work shirt was pretty soaked from the humidity. I even rode a fairly slow pace to try and prevent sweating. Looks like it's reached the point of the year where I'm going to have to commute in different clothes even on the days where I just have a short 4 mile jaunt.
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