the temp was pretty low today around 10F as I left the house. Amazing tail wind on the way in. There were stretches where I was hitting 26 or 27 mph with my heavy duty bike with the 1.9 studded snow tires with 40 lbs of pressure in them.

It warmed to the high teens maybe even 20 and then dropped as I rode home. And when it dropped it plummeted to about 7F with unbelievably strong winds right in my face. I don't know what the wind chill was but I had to stop and take shelter from the wind for a minute or two to pull my balaclava down a bit so it covered my forehead because it felt like it was getting a little too frozen up there. My forehead still feels a little "burned" from the cold. It was a real workout riding home in that wind. But then I had to ride back downtown one more time to meet my wife to see a show together. So I totaled out at 31 miles on a pretty challenging day.

Almost had to do the ride home when our car didn't start after the show. somehow it was so cold it did some wierd thing to the alarm system. Eventually I got it going but totalling 42 miles in this cold windy weather would have been like doing the Iditarod.