Ichetucknee Springs to Madison, FL
Daily Miles: 72.9
Total Miles: 228.7
Max Speed: 23.7 mph
Avg Speed: 12.4 mph
Time Pedaling: 05:51:39
I woke up and walked outside to go to the bathroom and it was indeed very very cold. I can’t complain seeing as many friends and family in the northern part of the country have it much much worse, but still, 25 degrees isn’t necessarily a heat wave.
I gathered my belongings and was ready to ride by 8:00. I wore two extra top layers, my big fleece gloves and my buff and hat, and put the tires to the pavement.
It was really cold. My face stung and I had to immediately stop to position my buff to form a face mask to block the chilly air.
With that out of the way, I was mostly comfortable. The road was quiet riding out of the park and the sun shown behind me warming my back and casting nice morning light on gently rolling farmland.
I stayed on low traffic county roads all day which was pleasing. What was not pleasing was a nasty headwind comming from the north, which impeded progress quite significantly, especially on the uphills, which there were quite a lot of.
Eventually I turned left and went west, getting the wind out of my face, and the day improved. Since it was Sunday everyone was out to church. I passed roughly a couple dozen small churches of all types, Baptist, Methodist, Prodestent, Catholic, etc., and each one had a few dozen cars out front. People take their religion seriously down here.
I arrived at my destination after passing a large peanut factory. I never knew such large facilities existed to manufacture peanuts, but I guess it must be tough work getting all those peanuts out of their shells. Someone has to do it so I suppose it might as well be a big machine.
I’m in Madison tonight, splurging on a hotel. It’s going to drop down into the 20s again but this should be it for awhile. Typical temps are returning tommorrow and it will be much appreciated. I came down here to escape the winter and it followed me instead.
Riding into Tallahasee tommorrow. Hopefully in warmer weather.
Hope you have a good ride tomorrow.