It’s still not Fall, if the temperatures are to be believed. I guess I won’t need a jacket for a while; but when I finally do, I can just see it going from high 80s one afternoon, to 40 degrees overnight. I’d prefer a more gradual cooling down; and not these crazy, wild fluctuations between heat and cold. Everybody here complains about that.

Yesterday afternoon I got my road bike back from the shop; and it’s great to be riding it again. The problem had been a badly snagged shifting cable; and the poor guys at the shop had a hard time getting it out. If they’d been unsuccessful, I might have had to buy a new bicycle! Parts for my road bike have become hard to find; and it looks like planned obsolescence is waiting to spring! 

There was a pretty good wind today; and that slowed me down. I didn’t think to get down on the drops; which would have helped. I need to work on that again; especially learning to grab my Camel-Bak’s drinking tube while on the drops.

Since it’s “still not Fall”, I can do without leg warmers; and even use sun sleeves. When will I need arm warmers? Who can tell? If woman is fickle, so is the outdoors!