Arcadia, cool and rainy

[alanmcorcoran]

Had a grant committee meeting today at the home of one of the other committee members. She lives up in Arcadia, about 33 miles from here. Trip took me back through some of my old bicycle riding territory. At one point, had to detour around a water main break on Hacienda and got to hit the twisties on West Rd.

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I rendez-vous'd with her and another committeeperson at her house and we hit the local Claim Jumper for some lunch and agenda items. I didn't take my camera to our meeting, but I included some photos from our benefit last week.

Last night I was out and about and got quite cold on the bike for the first time. It was probably about 60, so it was surprising to me I'd be cold. I was wearing my usual outfit: black t-shirt under ICON jacket. I had unzipped the lining since I had it - usually it's brutally hot. Today was cool weather again, so I put the lining's back in to the jacket and my touring pants. After we came out of the meeting, it was raining so I got to experience riding in a rain shower. Fortunately, it didn't keep raining very long. With ATG on, and the full lid, the only place exposed to the weather was my neck. Have to look into something for that. Also, I missed the little "squeegees" that come on the thumbs of my ski gloves (for squeegee-ing ski-goggles) The rain doesn't wick off the face shield much - could use some wipers on there.

Had one "Ack!" moment making a very gentle right turn. Even though there was nothing but wet road, the bike lost traction for a second and slid a little. I used my feet to re-establish balance. Probably not recommended. No other slippage. The roads were half dry for most of the return and I was able to keep the speed up to regular limits (40-55, depending)

A little over 1200 miles now and feeling like a veteran... Tomorrow I plan a 140 mile ride to Malibu.