You're my idol.

For me, it depends on how much rain and what % and when. Maybe you do a similar analysis.

Tuesday this week it was 20-35% chance of rain all day, and it misted or drizzled all day. I'm glad I bailed on that, though I didn't get much sleep that night.

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I commuted again on the gravel bike this morning. I had gotten up earlier, had a cup of coffee and a protein smoothie*, chatted with my wife, who works from home on Fridays. I left the heavy trunk bag behind today and carried everything I needed in my pockets:

• HipLock zip tie type lock
• Wallet
• Work badge
• Phone
• (no lunch; I'll buy it at the cafe today)

I felt much faster than the other day. The road was a little wet, but not QUITE wet enough that I got really dirty. (I don't have the bikini clip-on fenders installed) Looking at my ride stats, I only averaged 10. wasn't, but I think it had to do with the fact that I forgot to stop Strava when I got off the bike and walked into the building. These things matter on a two mile commute.

In the attached speed chart from Strava, we can see the first dip to 0 mph was a stop sign in my neighborhood. The next one is a stop light I had to stop for. The last one (highlighted) is when I parked the bike but Strava was still running. It jumped around a bit while trying to keep hold of GPS locks while I was in the building for a few minutes and finally stopped it.

I'm going to do the same route again next week and remember to turn off Strava promptly and see how it compares.

I just noticed that the main ride stats screen has my average at 10.8 mph, but when I look at the average on the speed graph, it says 12.1 mph. I guess the former is overall average and the latter is rolling average? They could sure annotate this better...


This morning's commute's speed graph

* Smaug's Protein Smoothie Recipe:

1. 1/2 cup orange juice
2. 1/2 cup coconut milk
3. 1 banana
4. 1 cup Greek yogurt, with at least 2% milkfat (makes it more creamy and satiating)
5. 1 scoop protein powder (I use the organic vanilla one from Costco with the blue cap)
6. 1.5 cups frozen organic fruit (it was mixed berries today)