Today's plan was to take my road bike for a nice long ride, 42km/~26mi, as my way in to work. I got up at 5am to wake up my son for his early shift and went back to bed and didn't want to get up at 6am but by 6:25, I was up, outside and on the bike. However, 6:25am left me little room for stopping at the halfway mark for a brief rest as it would take me about 1:40hrs to ride that distance and I had to be at my desk in 2:05hrs after putting my bike away and showering. After 6km into the ride when I was riding mostly south and west, my route changes direction to east and then north and that is when it struck me, the 22kmh/13mph constant wind from the northeast. The headwind was going to sap my energy and lengthen the time it would take me to complete the ride so I decided to cut the ride short to a 22km distance which means that I take the 2nd exit off the highway. As I was riding down the ramp off the highway, I realized too late, that I had taken the first exit off the highway, not the second so my ride was shortened even more to 18km. Oh well. I have a few tweaks to do to a geological map I'm working on that I can complete before my editor arrives.

It was cool, 11C/54F, and breezy as I mentioned and sunny but not sunny enough to really make my arms feel warm, I'm glad to be inside the building now.

Tomorrow is my 57th birthday and I've taken the afternoon off, originally to take my wife to her doctor's appointment (the treatment, a new one, may make it difficult for her to drive afterwards) but she doesn't get home from work until nearly 2:30pm (6am-2pm shift) so I'll have some time after lunch to do that long ride for my commute home (assuming I don't take the wrong roads again, LOL).