I looked at the weather report Monday evening and thought, “heck, a 40% chance of 1mm of snow tomorrow, I will ride anyways!!” Getting on the bike this morning it looked so nice and calm outside, but within five minutes I was riding through a light drizzle/sleet/snow mix that made me think that a much more useful upgrade to my morning clear safety glasses would be cute little over-engineered wipers.

As I passed the second Erin Woods Drive, I also reaffirmed to myself why I wear my glasses in the mornings. I was passed by a POS rusted out (obviously private) street sweeper which as it passed me, bottomed out like a baldly tuned low rider, threw a stream of sparks off of it’s left corner and then threw an 8″ steel rear sweeper bristle at my head. it missed by a couple of feet but really made me think “wow, it would really ruin my morning to take shrapnel through the eye”.

Overall, the slight tailwind this morning, combined with feeling significantly more energetic after recovering from the weekend, even subtracting the snow gave me a 7 minute faster ride this morning than yesterday. It felt great! (and I hope I am not riding home through a foot of snow this afternoon)