I got more surprises today. Despite yesterday\’s forecast of \”clear\”, it was almost completely overcast at 6 am today. I took a quick look at the NOAA site, and the forecast didn\’t say it would rain; on the contrary, it said \”mostly clear\”.

So I took off at 6:37 am; and indeed, the sky cleared as the morning went on. I began the ride wearing vermilion lenses; but packed along the dark lenses just in case. Sure enough, by the time I reached my turnaround point, I needed dark lenses.

There was almost no wind, for a change. I wish that happened more often! And it was at my back on the way home, also for a nice change. I kept feeling like I had a headwind, which means I was pedaling at a fair clip.

And still more surprises! My overall average speed was 14.42 mph! I didn\’t expect it to be that high, because of my slower warm-up mile; and a slower cool-down pace for almost a mile before reaching home. But for the rest of the ride I averaged 14.7 mph😊

I got yet another surprise upon reaching home. The power was out! I had seen a truck from the power company just before I got to my front gate; but I thought they were working on the wiring for a new house that\’s being built. Luckily the \”juice\” came back on after about 15 minutes; and I got an automated call from the power company. The cause of the outage had been \”an animal\”. They didn\’t specify, so I\’ll have to guess. Ants? (That\’s happened before). Squirrel gnawing on something? Not impossible, I\’d say.

That\’s enough surprises for now, don\’t you think?