40F this morning with a steady rain. I don't have riding clothes for rain, so dawned the BANANA suite (yellow rain paints & coat). Was nice to ride in the rain. We need the mosture big time.

I feel pretty good this morning. Still a bit of a head ache and my neck muscles are sore, but nothing bad enough to get me off of the bike. I can feel the gash in my thigh when peddling, kind of a strange sensation.

When inspecting the peddle that broke I noted that it looks to have been "cracked" in half for some time. The area of "fresh break" was not even half way through the "spindle." The break was in an area that was not visible to me when I perform my inspections.

The moral to this story?

Don't trust the peddles that come on your thrift store bikes!