Commute to see extended family in Westchester

Cold and Windy Bear Mountain

Jay Peak Ski

Cold TNSR

Montauk Double Century

Amazing ride on almost entirely new roads! More importantly, after this ride I’ve now officially done a double century (imperial units) in every month of 2025! With the weather getting so cold I thought I might have to fly somewhere warm for a weekend to keep the streak alive this month, but I bought a lot of new warm gear yesterday and managed to feel pretty comfortable throughout this whole ride, despite this breaking the record I set two weeks ago for coldest double century, with temperatures ranging from 30-40 degrees throughout the ride. It’s hard to believe but this was my first ever 150+ mile ride that I wore long pants on… it really made a difference LOL

This route had been on my radar for a while but I had initially been hesitant to ride it because of the almost nonexistent climbing ratio and unusually high presence of big trafficky roads. But today, every other potential route would’ve been snowed out with pretty much all points north of the city getting a lot of snow last week. I gave this route a try and I’m glad I did! The first 50 miles were indeed quite busted, but once I reached a critical distance from NYC the roads got a lot better and it was cool to do a coastal ride for the first time in a few months. Some of the sections near Montauk itself felt like “we have the Oregon coast at home”, mostly in a good way 😂 and a lot of the roads later in the ride were super empty because it was certainly not a great day to go swimming LOL

I ended the ride 100 miles from home in Hampton Bays and will be taking the LIRR train home, hopefully that doesn’t Idrify. With the weather getting a lot colder soon it might be a few weeks before I do another long ride, but in January and February I’ll be doing monthly trips to warmer places, and once daylight savings time hits in March I’ll be locking in on another daily riding streak 😎 Overall it was a great ride today and I love random statistics about my century rides so I’ll end with this random coincidence - today was the fourth straight time I did a century ride on a college football or basketball selection Sunday 🤣

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