Love love love that blue on your Lauf! And FWIW, outside for the win 
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I was leaning toward the white for the longest time until driving across northern New Hampshire I saw a blue Seigla on the back of a camper van. Even though I had two of my kids with me I turned around and talked to the owner for 10-15 minutes. I took that as my sign to get a Seigla, and in blue. 
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I used to drive up from NoVA to Newport every summer for a week to visit some friends. Always a great time. Never rode while I was there, but would go do a lot of running along the water. Loved it!
The loops around the southern part of the island and the coast to the east have been great. Wide roads, mostly smooth, and relatively little traffic. They’re probably much busier in the summer but a lot have painted bike lanes. If you come up again definitely recommend bringing your bike.
“Just popping out to grab something for lunch…”
[Knee started grumbling again in the latter stages, which is a little frustrating. Still - at least nine days now before it’ll have to do any more rides.]
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That would have been moist!
A tad drizzly, and a bit of road spray, but not too bad - timed my arrival at the garden centre just right to dodge the worst of it.
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Newport, RI, USA
Three loops, each about 7.5 miles long. Maintained 70% ftp for the 75 min it took. Interesting to see how the elevation “changed” over the course of the loops as barometric pressure changed due to the Nor’easter moving in.
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Bit of a steady hard for me this morning. Just one other turned up for the group ride. Not surprising given the atrocious weather we’ve had and the resultant floods. Although this morning was a decent break in the rain. Rather than winterising the good bike in a rush, I took the commuter instead, its a bit heavy but its permanently winterised. My mate was needing back on time as he’s going to a rugby game this afternoon. So he was going to give the cafe a miss, but we made good time to it (amazingly there was no flooding or major obstructions on route) and another mate said he’d meet us at the cafe. After a bit when he never showed we gave him a ring. It seems that the route he took was full of floods and obstructions, and whilst he’d got through the first ones, eventually it was just too much and after trying a detour round it with no success he turned back. So it was pretty steady fast on the way back, I think though we made it back in plenty of time for his rugby game. I might have to see if there’s room to push the rear mudguard up as it was occasionally fowling the tyre making it extra hard!
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Friday was very nice autumn day in Minnesota, sunny with a temperature of 68F (20C).
Fall colors are showing up on the Mississippi River bluffs
Recent rains have improved our drought situation a little, Minnehaha falls has gone from this in September
to this yesterday
a picture of the trail along the river flood plain
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I decided to climb Guardsman from Midway for the first time. 2nd hardest climb in Utah - 15th in US. Nearly 4,000ft gained at 8.5% (uneven) to a peak elevation of 9,700ft. I’m not hurry to do that one again. At least I got a nice photo at the summit.
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Northern Rail Trail
New Hampshire, USA
30 miles out and back, from Boscawen to Danbury. Absolutely amazing and so well done (well maintained, gates to keep cars out, wide openings to not have to come to a complete stop, etc).
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That looks amazing! Fall is New England is such a great time to ride 
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@FrankTuna thanks! I’m trying to take full advantage of being in Newport for two weeks of training. My parents live 35 minutes from the trail head (and 3 1/2 hours from Newport, vice 7-8 hours to my house) so it was an easy decision to visit them for the weekend and sneak away for a spin on the rail trail.
I’m very thankful the Nor’easter cleared overnight and that the trail drained well. There were less than 10 puddles on the 30-mile stretch, all of which could be passed on either side. The storm dumped 1 1/2 inches of rain so I was a little nervous about the trail being a complete mess.
I haven’t done too much cold weather riding but picked my layers well, so I’m figuring it out!
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Out in the gravel bike today. 24mi with only 1800’ of elevation, but off pavement wasn’t much of that.
Pics weren’t bad.
I did get a “nice bike” while on the trail, so that was nice.
For any rowers, yesterday’s weather for the Head of the Charles sucked. It was nicer today.
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Wow! So you could have kept riding over the summit, past Solitude, and down into SLC?
Yes, you can link loops over Guardsman from SLC to PC, but all have issues with a bad riding road. From Guardsman, I could have rolled down BCC and been home in 30 minutes, but my car was in Midway. 
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3 min strength + 2 min threshold
Back in Newport for another week of training. It was difficult to maintain the low cadence on flats and downhills with 1x and 40/10 as the largest ratios, but good to be doing some structure.
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I did an epic bikepacking trip last week. 4 days around the San Rafael Swell area of Utah.
15k feet and 200 miles through rocky, sandy desert terrain. There was no water resupply points, so we had to drop water at two points in advance, and carry 1.5 days of water on the bike. 8.5L of water, plus food, cooking/eating equipment, clothes. I didn’t weigh my bike, but it was probably close to 70lbs all-in when fully loaded.
The four days of riding were long, hot, hard days on the bike. And the scenery and experience was unforgettable. I hadn’t done something like this before, and it was totally worth all the effort and planning.
Rather than write a trip report, the link above and pics below will give you an idea of what the ride was like. Highly recommended. 
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