Today I got triple lucky!

First, the restrooms at my pit-stop are finally open again! It took them long enough — seven or eight weeks. Now I can take a break there; and ride farther on before I turn for home.

I usually reapply sunblock when I make my pit stop. I unzipped the under-saddle pack; and no sunblock! Fortunately I had SPF lip balm, which was luck number two. Luck number three: I was wearing long sleeves; a lightweight skull cap; and leg warmers; and only needed to worry about my face and lower ears.

The lip balm is SPF 25; and the sunblock is 45 or 50. I figured that meant I should reapply the lip balm every half-hour; not every 80 minutes. It meant some extra stops; but who cares as long as I didn’t get sunburnt.

Today I had a pesky headwind on the way home (so what else is new?😵‍💫); and my legs got pretty tired. I’m rather surprised that the wind was only 5-6 mph; it felt stronger. Maybe I did too much yesterday to tackle a long ride today; but I’m eagerly watching the miles before my Love to Ride goal melt away. Only 453.59 to go!

It got quite warm before I was back home; but I left the leg warmers on because I didn’t have sunblock. Or I thought I didn’t. After I got home, guess what. I found a tube of sunblock at the bottom of one of my Camel-Bak’s pockets! I made sure to put sunblock into the under-saddle pack, so it’s there for next Sunday’s long ride.

It clouded up quite quickly as the morning went on; and tonight’s forecast is for patchy fog. I think I’ll do a short ride anyway, because I don’t have the hybrid back yet; and can’t ride to work. But as long as it’s not raining; and not cold; and my legs cooperate — well, that’s triple lucky!