Started out foggy and cold but tolerable with only arm warmers on. Once my blood 🩸 was moving o was good. Had a bowl of 5 minute boiled mixed grains with lots of honey stirred in - Yummy 😋 2 - 22 oz water bottles - 1 water 1 Mortal Hydration mango electrolyte powder with about 3 tablespoons of honey 🍯 Also brought an entire Ciabattatta Baguette split, warmed in the convection oven with honey drizzled over both inner halves and vegan parmesa shredded cheese. After the cheese is warm enough to become sticky I take the halves out of the oven and put the halves back together and cut the whole thinking in 6 ziplock sandwich bag sized sections and put 2 in each rear jersey pocket. The hot mixed grains was enough fuel to get me to Balboa Harbor at 54 miles. Misty, cold to cool then eventually sunny ☀️ conditions with almost zero wind all day! One 22 oz bottle of water outbound. Refilled at ARTIC Bus Depot. At the harbor I had my first 2 sections of Ciabattata Baguette. 🥖 and enjoyed the solitude. 19+ mph average up to this point. Other than 2 huge - probably 150 cyclist in Christmas ride celebration a few miles a part there was zero fast pelotons out and the few solo guys I caught just PCH back to SART and wanted to sit on my wheel at 22–24 mph so I just rode them off by increasing the tempo until they ejected themselves. Topped off at ARTIC again and had more fuel and tapped out the rest of he ride much stronger than I’ve been used to this year. Due to waning wattage output right after crossing the 100 mile point of 108 and a few small hills & grades before reaching Riverside average dropped to 17.7 but still a good result for over 100 miles at this point my training changes to prepare for 2026.