Big turnout tonight. Double last year. Natalie and Kira even invited Daniel from the other RWC bike "gang" they met in Huddart a couple months ago. It's the one year friendaversary (almost) for Natalie and Kira. For this ride last year Natalie met Kira on Caltrain and tried to get her to come join us. Much colder than last year too. My HR was not high enough to stay warm at 100bpm. I did a couple sprints that got it up to 135+ that helped me feel warmer but it took a minute for it to drop back down to 100 again. Before we got to Cafe Venetia I was starting to shiver. I think others were even colder than I was though. 🥶 I forgot about Cafe Venetia's hot chocolate. I'm not really into it. It's too viscous. Tastes like it's actually melted chocolate, rather than a drink, it's so thick. And I got the one that's supposedly more milk based. I think there's one that's even more chocolatey and thick. I ordered two of them to warm up but it was too thick to drink when it was hot. By the time it was cool enough to drink, it wasn't warm enough to warm me up.