over dressed

2 days ago my fingers were frozen riding into work. This morning, I had to take my jacket and ear warmers off 6 miles into the ride. They really need to make velcro ear warmers that you can take off without removing your helmet. I had this problem in Florida IM where the start of the ride was low 50s coming off a 2.4mile swim, but warmed up into the 70s... I had to take my helmet off to remove my ear warmers - need to come up with a better plan - ear muffs ; )?

Bad drivers suck. I'm riding on a 2 lane country road with no shoulder at 6:30am. While it is very unlikely that a car passes me in both directions at the same time. Usually the car behind me will slow down enough to let the on-coming car go first so they can give me a little room. This morning, the car behind me softly toots their horn, so I get as close to the side of the road as I can. He passes me, but there is a driver tailgating them who I'm sure did not see me and was trying to give the on-coming car as much room as possible, which means they were VERY close to me. Lesson to drivers - don't tailgate on narrow country roads - duh!

I did get a mile swim in last night before the swim lessons started. I really have to swim more often.