Cold Days

It's 32 degrees at 9AM. For this area it's cold. It's a ride day. I'm wondering what to do. I ordered a warm jersey from Performance. It will be here in a few days. I just can't seem to find a nice winter riding jacket. I do have 2 rain jackets. One just a light jacket the other a heavy duty rain jacket with all kinds of vents and stuff. Still, a rain jacket makes me sweat. In the cold staying dry is the most important thing. Being wet from the inside and cold, is just as bad as being wet from the outside and being cold. I want to stay as dry as I can on these cold days. It's going to take ice to stop me from my rides. Heavy snow will stop me to. My tires will have no grip at all. So what to do? I guess it's just going to turn out to be a tough day anyway I look at it. I sure don't want to miss a road day. Short hours is better than no hours. Also Mary Anne and I have an elliptical trainer that just got here the day before. Good timing. The indoor trainer may save the day.
The photo I attached is not so good. Though it show that the outdoor weather looks kind of bad. For here! I know there are places that have much worse weather. Just wanted to put something on the log today. Something about the training to look back at later.
Several hours later. I got the ride in. 11:40AM to 2PM. Not a long ride, but it was epic, fun, just a lot of hard work. First off, it was dam cold. The weather report said it felt like 22 degrees. I had 2 pair of gloves on, 3 jerseys on, a poly propylene long sleeve under shirt, plus arm warmers. Just about everything on top. Then my heavy rain jacket over it all. Bottom, I had the new wonderful super warm tights. My feet had 2 woolly pairs of socks. The shoes had very warm toe covers and full winter covers over the toe warmers and shoes. There was very little left in the riding locker once I was ready to go. The plan was to ride easy and try not to sweat to much. Stay warm! I went on my normal hilly course minus a few hills to make it in under 3+ hours. Half way through the light cold mist started to make it's way to the ground. It was snow. I was on the last real climb of the route, Lone Lake Road, and the snow started in earnest. My clear riding glasses would fill with snow. I had to wipe them while riding with my thick gloved fingers. I also had my blinky red light on. On my road kit, on the rear of the saddle. It was a good thing to! I could see about 30 yards in front of me. The cars, well you get the idea. I had nice big bike lanes all the way home from when the snow got to going hard. It was 32 degrees and now the snow was starting to stick a bit on the bike lanes. I had about 5 miles to go. The riding outfit was full of snow, shoes, gloves, helmet, riding glasses, arms and front of rain jacket. Everywhere had the wet sticky snow. I was riding a bit on the slow and extra careful side the last 2 miles home. I was very glad I went on the ride. My smile was ear to ear. It was just one of those mini epic rides. Not one other rider out that I saw. I think if any, they went in the morning well before the snow started. Smart of them. Though I have a great memory. First snow ride on the Island. I bet there will be a few more this winter season.