Met up with Ben R @ Angel Stadium - Arctic Bus Depot. We rode out to HB for Amazon Bowl treats: Dragon 🐉 Blood 🩸 smoothi for me. 41 degrees at start from home. Even with shoe covers, tights, long sleeve jersey & gloves I felt likely I didn’t have my usual power. Attempted to lock onto some roadies as soon as I got on the formal SART @ Green River but the power was still not there. Met up with Ben and ate a baggy of grapes and power took an uptick. Jumped a few roadies but didnt feel like staying with them for very long and dropped back to Ben. Even let him take off a mile to go to be the first to reach Pacific Coast Highway. After Amazon Bowl we rode down to Newport Pier and I shot new pictures of the Dragon 🐉 for my site and other portals. A couple miles of heading inland and power came back on. I jumped a few roadies then broke off half way to Arctic Bus Depot upon spotting Eric Pippins! Stopped and chatted a bit. It’s been over 40 yrs since our paths crossed back in my Santana Tandems days! Ben did an amazing job of drafting me while heading inbound with a nice tailwind. My power dropped off after that and I knew I’d be better off hitching a rider home via Ben. Really nice day ☀️🌴😊 Oh and I forgot to end the ride from ARCTIC until half way home! Actual ride distance was 75.3 mi