Samford lunch

A chilly rendezvous with A

UPS drop off

Lunch and botanical gardens meetup

Afternoon Walk

570 vehicles, 2.4/mi, 0.7/min, 37.4mph(avg)
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A little more detail ... my daughter has a 10 hour drive home from school. To help with the drive sometimes I bike to/from Virginia and do the whole drive with her, but sometimes I also just go part of the way to help with the last part of the drive. This was the latter, and I had set my sights on Sweetwater, TN and an Eddington 256 single ride combined with a ride earlier in the day for an E-300 day. But she got out the door a little bit earlier than expected and had no traffic at all so there was no way I was going to make it to Sweetwater ... so we met instead at Collegedale on the far side of Chattanooga.

I knew it was going to be cold, and since we had a department Christmas party before I left, I was only able to sleep about an hour before leaving just before midnight. I had lots of layers and no problem staying warm except for my feet. Still, a couple gas stations worth of coffee and I was able to warm. I had a beardcicle at the first stop 67 miles in which completely melted/pulled off before I finished my coffee. So the second beardcicle about 50 miles later was completely new. 

Temps stayed in the lower 20s most of the night and dipped down into the teens by morning. I snapped a picture of my Garmin showing 18 degF, which is significant b/c my ride home from Canada this summer had a picture showing 118 degF on the hottest (and longest) day. So a big adventure and this mini-adventure had a temperature difference of 100 degF between them only six months apart.

In any case, I was looking for all new roads and found some great ones in Alabama, Georgia, and Tennessee. The temperature rose pretty quickly by mid-morning, and I ended the day in shorts but kept my arm warmers on with just my jersey. Beardcicles and shorts on the same day ... only in the South!

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UPS drop off

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Afternoon Walk

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