176th ride - 12/21/2015

Today was a challenging day on which to ride. I was watching weather.com in order to plan the optimal time window on a day that contained light rain most of the time. First, they made it sound like early afternoon would be the best time to go, so I was planning to do that. Then, it changed so that it sounded like late afternoon might be best, so I reconfigured my plans once again. But then, finally, the forecast changed yet again so that mid-afternoon sounded best, so I went out a little past 3:00 and rode in a light, cool mist ... no significant rain, but the day-long precipitation had the trail very wet, and, at 45°, I was elated to have my gloves. I had hoped to do two round trips, but by the time the first was drawing to a close, darkness was already beginning to close in, so I settled once more for a single round trip to Marsh Park, with a concluding loop in our complex, giving me 10 miles in a slow 1 hour and 7 minutes.