The good weather is officially over. Today the weather was supposed to be bad in Utah. I check the weather on multiple sources just before lunch and it looked like there was going to be a break in the rain. Out my window it did not look inviting but neither did it look forbidding. So I put on the necessary clothing for a bike ride at 40 degrees.
10 minutes into the ride it started to sprinkle, but that should not be too big of a deal, I had the right equipment. 20 minutes into the ride it started pouring and at that point I was going to be completely soaked by the time I got home so I kept riding. At the high point of the ride, about 5200 ft in elevation, it started snowing. I kept the snow with me the rest of the ride home.
I already miss the days when it was 70 degrees at 6 am and there was no need for leg warmers. At least when I got home my wife, knowing that I should not have left in the first place, had a warm lunch waiting for me. After the feeling came back in my fingers I was able to enjoy a nice warm lunch. My brother-in-law saw me riding in the rain and stopped to talk to me in his car. He told me I was crazy for riding in that weather, earlier he had told my wife on the phone that I was an idiot. He is probably right, but I still love the feeling of being out on my bike trying to climb a hill that I have ridden a hundred times faster, or just being out with only my thoughts.
Here is the route I took on this crazy, rainy, snowy afternoon:
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