Unfortunately only my 2nd commute of the year yesterday. We went from snow and ice last Friday and Saturday (snow day off work and school Friday), to 60's and 70's this week with huge gusty south winds. Yesterday morning was a HARD ride into work with gusting head winds. 15.5 miles took nearly 90 solid minutes. But then I had a massive tail wind going home and it only took 67 minutes (63 minutes moving time). I was spinning hard on the one big downhill, spinning out 50x11 and got to 39.8 MPH. Just barely missed 40!

Only motorist issues were in the morning, a Sheriff deputy in a pickup passed me shortly before he had to turn left (me going straight), and honked for some dumb reason. In past experience local Sheriff deputies have always been pretty respectful and safe when passing. Oh well. One person's house continually has their large dog roaming around the front yard, who charges me whenever I ride by. I may have to send them my own letter one of these days, I don't know.