I was worried this was going to be a wuss Battenkill. Too hot, even. The past several days have been in the 60s and 80 F was registered in town not long ago.
Ha!
It's currently 3 F above freezing in Cambridge, NY, and when I get up out of my chair, pull on my cycling gear, gloves, boot wind covers, and drive up to register in the Cambridge Schools building, it should be much much warmer; perhaps 5 F above freezing. The wind, however, is another story. It will blow WNW nearly all day.
My field leaves at 11:15 am so the wind chill might have backed off a bit, say 38 or 40 F but there will be a beautiful frost rime on everything once we're tooling through the valleys and lanes outside of the village.
Battenkill: http://tourofthebattenkill.com/
Read it and weep.
Filkinos, one of the ResearchRiders of greater renown, has run the race in snow and rain, I believe, and that was when it was earlier in the year.
. . . and a different route with more climbing! America's Queen of the Classics was tougher then and more fun!
We'll see today what it brings for riders.
I will take my gloves, a hat, handkerchief, for those drippy moments, and one more cup of coffee before I leave.
As always, the Battenkill should be fun.
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