22.11 cold, wet, rainy miles

While training for Tahoe, we must also train ourselves to deal with the weather--it may not be bright and sunny with a tail wind the whole way. It might rain. It might even snow (apparently one year they did it, the next day it snowed). We have to be ready to deal with it. So today, I joined Jane and her husband Ned on the weekly Ashburn ride. It threatened to start raining late in the day, and by the time we started, the weather made good on that threat. Throughout the whole ride, there was light rain falling and the ground slick with water.

Statistics:
Distance: 22.11mi
Saddle Time: 1h20m38s
Actual Time: 1h25m
Start Time: 6:00PM
End Time: 7:25PM
Start Outside Temp: ???
End Outside Temp: ???
Max Speed: 31.1mph
Avg Speed (saddle): 16.4mph
Avg Speed (actual): 15.6mph

Should've used my red bike--at least I'd have had the covered tail rack to mitigate some of the "skunk stripes". Afterwards, we went to Five Guys and replaced all of the calories we burnt with peanut oil-cooked hamburgers and fries. Good times!