turning of the season

[totient]

Yesterday I took part of a personal day and went for a nice long bike ride, in summer kit.

Today I commuted to work, and rode home wearing (besides business casual) long underwear, wool socks, a good foul weather coat, helmet cover, cashmere hat, neoprene face mask, and my new winter gloves. And a sweatband, because that's how I roll. This was just about perfect.

The gloves, Specialized Element 1.5s that I picked for the fit and because they'll take liners, aren't really cold-rain gloves, and I have another pair that are. But I wanted to see how they'd do, and the answer is that for 15 or 20 minutes at least they were just fine. This bodes well for how they'll do in real snow, when the rain gloves are out of their depth temperature-wise.

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[blk]

Nice. I've got winter wear down pretty well as well, and I just got a new pair of large gloves (these), specifically for the use of wearing additional liners under them, in hopes that I can be comfortable down to ~15F (ideally down to 0F, but that's iffy). Although it's looking like it may be several more weeks before I'll get to try them out. :)