It wasn’t quite Tenerife but it was Fun (in a kinda) Sun.
Strava claims it was a feel like -8deg C 
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Is this out by Murieta? What a cute area!
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Too flat for Murieta lol, its a little street off Bradshaw and Calvine.
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How absolutely amazing!! What a wonderful vacation for you! I loved seeing these pictures. Thanks for sharing!
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So neat that these nice horse properties still exist. I hope they don’t all get developed away!
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OMG all that climbing and all that snow. That’s really impressive adaptation for a So Cal native! Heck - it’s just impressive! I wonder if the frogs are hibernating
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Tuesday is endurance day, so I took a trip to the river/delta. Uploaded my ride, named it, and saw this in my feed…
^^^ Truth! Yesterday he rode down here.
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Took a pic tonight for you, a lot of cropping because I kept riding and the corral was set back from the road:
This guy was running back and forth, and back and forth. Beautiful horse.
Early birding at work to keep squeezing these end of day rides in.
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Awwww! What a cutie! Looks like a really nice paint horse! Thank you for snapping the pic! I love it!
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Days are so short, now! I’m about to get on the trainer. I think it was dark by 5:30 today. Glad you got a ride in - the weather looked beautiful. Thanks for the picture!
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Leaves are off of the trees, everything has turned brown and gray, but it’s still great to ride outside.
Mississippi River in St. Paul, Thursday afternoon, first ride of December.
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Officially “which way to ride out of this tule valley fog and into sunny skies?” season.
Putting my kit on at 12:10pm and its starting to look a little better:
Almost couldn’t see the redwood trees at dawn. Off to find the sun and warmer temps!
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A nice relaxed ride to Oundle and a pub for me today. It seems like everyone was just as full of the cold as me so I was happy to go at the pace 
My mates got some good pics of the ride too 
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A few pictures from Sunday’s ride. 2.5 hours Z2 outside, 74 km, with the gravel bike with fenders and road wheelset off the road bike. First half was dry, saw a nice rainbow, then it started to rain and continued to do so until the end. Started out at 1C, rainbow was 0C, then it dropped to -1C in the rain, classic Type 2 fun.
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We were in Reno over the weekend for my daughter’s college graduation. Stayed at the Whitney Peak hotel and I’m thinking of going back next month because…
Cattle Decapitation is rocking the house on the 22nd! 
Hmm, on the other hand that means no more cowbell 
Can’t support that.
RAINY and cold Monday, perfect return to training with 2 hours outside and some short and easy criss-cross intervals to start week1 of another block:
Had to turn around on the 2nd to last cross. Versus the prior training block, much better control going from tempo to above threshold and back to tempo 
Back home and past the house decorated by the two 80+ year old ladies that live there:
I think they get help with the lights on the gutter. But the rest? I rode past the house several days in a row a couple weeks ago when they were outside putting up lights! Rocking grannies!
This guy rented high lift, trimmed his redwood, and put up a show!
off to the far right of the pic is a white tent top - that is our neighborhood microbrewery and CrossFit gym. Stopped and talked to Joe of BBQ Express Yoself, he was cooking outside the brewery tonight. No beer for me!
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Out for a quickie 50min afternoon ride to replace the scheduled Petit. Rain all day yesterday melted most the snow and today’s light snow that fell all day mostly melted away, but not all. I think the not-summer that was not dusty but muddy, nudged by the absence of an autumn, has me less interested in snow rides than anytime in the last three years.
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Our Governor Newsom missed COP26 I think, or did he join virtually? The good news from a carbon footprint POV is that he didn’t fly a private jet to COP26. “The Internet” is approaching 4% of carbon emissions, I’m assuming its more green to video conference than fly but I haven’t done the math 
It was our usual ride down to Oundle by a spurious route. My mate who is an awesome rider (wins a lot of TTs) had 20min threshold blocks to do. Luckily for me he was on a groad bike, with 32mm gravel kings and it was just a Z2 for me on a 25mm pure road bike, with 25mm 5000TLs.
We had planned originally to stop for a coffee and then ride around a bit before lunch in Oundle. But when we got to the cafe one of our members was missing. We found out at the coffee stop, he’d went out on the lash last night and had went straight home.
We then made the strategic decision to stop for a pub lunch closer to Peterborough.
Edit in Flat 3D - Relive 'Festive Birds'
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