Inaugural Fingerless glove ride of 2012

Got a good little run in this afternoon. After a Saturday of sitting in the pub watching Liverpool attempt to play football in the FA Cup final and following it up with an evening at home making up for it by watching some NHL playoffs, Toronto Rock Lacrosse, and Blue Jays baseball, I had to do something on Sunday with the weather nice and the weekend running out of time.

It was also the inaugural fingerless glove ride of 2012 as the title suggests. The weather nice enough that I could not only limit myself to just cycling shorts with the tights left at home for what I hope is the foreseeable future, but I could ditch the warmer, full-finger gloves.

The result was that with slightly less padding on the palm of the hand coupled with most of the ride taking place on the poorly surfaced roads of Toronto and so-so surfaced roads of Toronto, I got that real numbing sensation on a couple of my fingers, but I'll get used to it.

Maybe it was the sudden appearance of that bight bright ball of light in the sky, but something melted my mind enough that at one stage when I stopped the Garmin when stuck in traffic, I forgot to restart it for a period of 3 miles meaning that only when home I could manually add on the distance to my total as well as the time taken. I normally have the Garmin set to stop at anything under 5mph, but here I was crawling up to a set of traffic lights behind cars at about 6mph and the average speed was dropping. Who cares you might say but I'd rode well for the first 20 something miles and wanted to keep it above 18mph.

Anyway below is the ride details though there is a section missing from the route map with a line drawn as the crow might fly from where I briefly stopped the Garmin to where I remembered to start it.

All in all a good ride in the sun but in breezy enough conditions and done at 18.4 mph.