Last chance for a long training ride before my 3-week 1000-mile Ride of Death begins! We were promised storms Saturday and a small chance of rain Sunday, so I planned for Sunday, sucker that I am. The storms went south and it was beautiful in Manhattan Saturday. Today it was cloudy, gloomy and misty. I rode anyway. To be fair, it was cool and not at all windy. What little wind we had was from the north to northwest, so a tailwind of sorts on the back half of this classic 100k course. All previous such rides had nasty headwinds on the back. The Orca and I rode well together, close to PRs on the climbs and with a PR on the Madison - Kimball finishing stretch. This was my fastest time ever on this course, though the lack of headwind is probably the reason (not great athleticism). Power meter worked OK for the first half, but then basically dropped the right channel. Wore the Orbea kit, and carried some arm warmers just in case. Didn't use those, but from time to time wished I had long-fingered gloves. Temperature was rock stable at 64 °F, winds light and variable, mostly from the northwest.