First day for an outdoor ride!

First day for an outdoor ride! Finally after a long winter of indoor spinning we get to get out and hit the open road. Today about 25 of us met up at the Ardrossan community hall just east of the city for a team ride through the countryside.  These bikes are not meant for riding is the city so it is best to find some quieter paved country roads and secondary highways that we can put on some good miles without having to touch the brakes.

A beautiful spring morning with clear skies and a slight wind. The temperature was around 10c so I had to layer up, wear gloves, leg warmers.

All and all, I was a pretty comfortable, and it was fun to be riding my bike on the road again.
Here is my a view of the ride that I get from my GPS heart rate monitor. It tracks my speed/ distance and pace as well as about a half a dozen additional bits of information as I ride.  It even displays a map of where I went.  I get a read out like this for every one of my workouts.