For Oct, the weather is just too good although the skies can be slightly smokey from a forest fire up north. Late start as I first went to Beth's spin class at the Y. Beth is a retired ranked female bike racer and her spin classes are terrific so the follow up ride was just for fun. Plan was to take the Southworth ferry boat to Vashion, bike the island and exist off the south end of the island for a total bike ride of 50 miles with a lot of hills. So a late start but didn't check the ferry schedule and it would have been a 2 1/2 hour wait for the next boat so decided to go to Pt. Orchard as a fall back. Got the miles but not the elevation. Lunch with Nadine in Pt. Orchard and then home. Beautiful beautiful day for biking in the NW. Thinking about doing the 50 mile ride to Gig Harbor tomorrow and then if the weather holds next week get one more ride up Mt. Rainier.