what was I thinking?

The morning started out frosty and foggy, it warmed slightly as the day wore on, but the fog stayed around......... until about 3:30PM when it dissolved away leaving beautiful blue skies. I knew I had to ride. I was thinking that I had about 25 miles to go to reach 9000 miles for the year so figured I had that in the bag and posted as much to Facebook. Alas, I should read my own blog! I was ONE HUNDRED and 25 miles short of 9000!

I started off in the blue sky, but knew it would be dark before I could finish so had good lights along. I rode my 25 mile "night loop" that is well lit with good shoulders. As the sun went down immediately fog began to reform. I was afraid that it would get thick and force me to quit but I was lucky in that visibility was never less than a few hundred feet. I put my faith in my dual Planet Bike Superflashes on the back and the 1 Watt Planet Bike white blinkie on front as well as my Light and Motion Stella 300 LED. Along with boat loads of reflectivity I felt save out there.

My night loop is not quite 25 miles so when I came in with two laps I was just short of 50 miles. A lap around the block fixed that!

.........road bike.......rollers.........mtb.....lifecycle.....total
Today........50..............0.............0..........0..........50
Jan.........474..............0............21..........7.........502
Feb.........530..............0.............0..........0.........530
March.......502..............0.............0..........0.........502
April.......524..............0.............0..........0.........524
May........1003..............0.............0..........0........1003
June.......1016..............0............10..........0........1026
July.......1148..............0.............0..........0........1148
August.....1049..............0.............0..........0........1049
Sept.......1153..............0............50..........0........1213
Oct.........881..............0.............0.........20.........901
Nov.........556..............0.............0..........0.........556
YTD........8812..............0............87.........27........8926