https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/you-dont-need-sports-drinks-to-stay-hydrated/

As Wencheng Lin has already posted on the group's Facebook page, there are a couple of potholes, as well as a ton of gravel at the intersection of Rockland Road and 9W (the turnoff to Tallman State Park). If you're not familiar with it, there's a little bit of a descent there if you're coming from Ft. Lee, so you can pick up a bit of speed, and before you know it, you're on top of the pothole. If you go left, you're putting yourself into traffic, and if you go right, there's a *ton* of gravel, which caused a crash with the group I was riding with yesterday that resulted in at least one injury.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/obituaries/major-taylor-overlooked.html

Let us not feel too smug that we've long passed the time of repulsive discrmination against and vile treatment of black cyclists. Well within my lifetime as an adult, in the 1960s, New York's vaunted racing organization, the Century Road Club Association (CRCA) barred black cyclists from competing! (See, for example, the ineffably sad story of Brooklyn's Metzler Brothers in Peter Nye's "Hearts of Lions: The History of American Bicycle Racing.") (If you're the person, now forgotten, to whom I loaned it, please return it.)

I'm planning to register for this year's FANY ride, 400-500 miles, from Plattsburgh to Poughkeepsie. Registration is currently open.

https://www.fanyride.com

I'd love to join anyone going, or have anyone join me. I plan to take Metro North to Poughkeepsie and then their shuttle to the start.

Okay, I give up. I'm a true blue retrogrouch (I have a 5-yr-old iPhone) but I'm tired of of my hands being so cold when the rest of me is fine. Time to buy some heated gloves!!

Any recommendations/endorsements? I know a bunch of people in the club have them, what are the preferred brands? I did a search and found about 30 different brands/models. I even found headed glove liners but none seemed to have a good rating.

Sorry if a similar thread has already appeared (I didn't see it).

Thanks in advance,

-d

Pushing the ride to Sunday to take advantage of warmer temperatures.

This from the NY Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/29/nyregion/mom-subway-stairs-death-malaysia-goodson.html

It will break your heart. 

It also points to the problem of long elevators while managing the unwieldy. 

When I first rode the elevators at the terminal of the 7 line at 34th Street, I was immediately struck with the potential for danger to self and others should anyone on the extremely long segment lose control. An epileptic seizure, orthostatic hypertension, heart attack, whatever, might prove fatal.

Feels like 9W has worse ice conditions than in previous years. There are always areas to watch out for but yesterday i was headed north somewhere near Columbia University and all North bound lanes were covered in ice. Turned out there was just enough traction that I was able to ride over it. Is there a drainage issue that has gotten worse this year? Any thoughts?

Oh, you know I wasn't there.* I don't ride in the cold. But Bob Schmon did and reported what I write in the headline.

*I write from balmy, tropical...Cleveland. It costs as much to fly to Rome this week as it does here.)