Mid-sommer Chain Fun for Fred

 

Chain - 3 - Time to come off, 1141.7 Miles.  

• Originally on at 650 Miles - May 13
• Secret applied at 805 - June 5 - 150 Initial, Post 350 - 
• Limited wet/rain rides really does extend life 
• Removed for Clean/Re-wax - 1141.7 - July 29  - 492.6 Miles
• Chain wear at less than .20 still based on Gauge. 

Chain 1 - 550 Miles on it, re-waxed after cleaning on May 13.

• Put back on at 1142 Miles.
• Chain wear at less than .20 - nice!   

Need to Order Chain 4 to have 3 in rotation.   Sigh.    

 

Grimace is getting better, the old bars were a HUGE fix for my old man wrists.   Need to replace the bars this fall though.   Do i miss electronic shifting?  Not a ton, other than my thumbo.   

 

Fred still has fitment issues.  I may need...major changes, I'm about 1 inch/2.5cm/22mm short on reach compared to the ole CX/Cross bike Ichigo.   And thats with Fred also having a much lower seat to stem drop.

 

The rear tire need a HOT date with Stans.   After a bad commute loosing lots of air I pulled the tire on Monday and found barely any toobless juice.  (It was clear??!?!?!).  Wiped out, checked for major punctures with the finger and found none.  2.5 oz of Stans.  Shake and Bake.  I'd say loosing less than 1 psi a day.   Testing over next few days where it's travel and MTB.

Front tire next week.  

 1500'ish miles for the year so far, 1325 in last 6 months.  Not bad.  July numbers are down due to other commitments honest.   I'm sub 200 from missing a few commute chances due to days off and other work commitments offsite.   Oh well, re commit and push in August.   

 

Chain Maint - 807 on Fred.

 Fred got re-waxed with a quick treatment.  807 miles, so about 160 miles since it was freshly waxed.  It was pretty gnarly and I got a serious raining 2 weeks ago on riding.  And 2 long and dusty rides....

Maybe it's overkill, maybe it's Maybelline.   

Lots of riding, I was over 90 miles as of thursday in last 8 days.   Hoping to get 1 more good ride in this weekend.

Lots of Canal.  So nice riding upwards from just about anywhere above Lock 21 or at least Great Falls.

Call me the Movie Critic

 Solid Start of Year.   

 For 2026 so far:

 

A decent start, with June and vacation upon me I do wonder how many hours I'll get.   Do have a few things planned so hopefully a few good rides will push up numbers.

Fred is now at 762 miles on the Strava-dometer.   Once I get the saddle dealt with I think it is hugely more comfortable on long rides.  While the Saturday ride was 3 hours moving it was more like 330 total with some waiting for my partner.   Looking forward to a few legit 4-5 hour rides over the next several months.

Now with Betty disassembled and done and Grimace in place, I've really gotta sort and store all the spares I pulled from Betty.  After I finish my membership cleanup tonight, I may even take a partial day off this week to work on my storage area at home.   2 years and a LOT of the crap hasn't been touched/used since moving.   Old Shoes, Cloths, Tools, etc.   Gotta go.  Char even said that my house is more of a bike garage in the main room right now.  If my comics weren't hogging space I might move 2 bikes into where they are but, oh well.   

Herding Cats for organizing rides?  2 Thumbs Down.:)   

Mando and Grogu Movie?  2 Thumbs Up :P  - Fun, Adventure, Action, and a few deeper ideas.   

Send Help - Funny and gory and a great Sam Raimi flick!    

MTB Bars with 5/6Deg Sweep -  2 Thumbs Down,  old man wrists dislike. 

 Wait?  No idea, maybe a waiting on Wednesday.    

Chains Chains Chains

 I wanna break this rusty ca...err chain?

Been a bit, lots going on in life.  Lots of riding.  Lots of travel.   Lots of stuff.  Trailwork - 2x in last 3 weeks.   

For Tracking I've now officially put Chain 3 (New) on Fred.   Chain 1 since put back on at end of March had about 240'ish miles on it's original wax application.  But the rain on Monday wiped it out.  I debated cleaning and just applying Chain Secret to see how long it kept it going, but opted to just swap in a new and freshly waxed chain.  I guess if you have 2 chains that's what you do.  My actual plan is to get Fred up to 3 chains then I can probably go 4 months before processing and secret can be for quick waxes.

• Chain 1 - Used is at and the chain is at call it 550 miles.  240 Miles on Mar wax.
• Re-Waxed 13-May-2026
• Chain 3 - New - 0 Miles - Waxed after cleaning in April 2026
• Chain 4 - To be Bought in June

Fred is at 650'ish miles.  Felt like it should be more but mostly commutes and long rides home a few times.  

While in Orlando for things at the end of April I rode the HELL out of the ole Volpe.  Took it in for repairs to the bikeshop in Winter Garden.

Highly recommend the West Orange Trail, especially the Winter Garden area (slow due to tons of stops), the more northern end you can get going for longer sets for sure.  Also really dig The Backyard in Ocoee.  Fun outdoor food and beer hall!  Great food trucks.   Think I rode near 90 miles.

The volpe went in for new chain, rear shifting, cables and all the goodies.  With near 3K logged miles in 14 years it's due.  2 or 3 gears were skipping like CRAZY.   Never realized it was a 10 speed!  :)

So far Betty is holding up but creaking in the BB is the reality until I can replace it I guess.  So far it hasn't blown out/fallen out.  But so far only 1 weak WF ride.   

Big Ride, Little Me?!?

 So I've been busy at work, in last 2 weeks or so I've commuted into work 8 times in last call it 16 days where thats 2 or 3 extra over normal (usually 2x a week).  

Then I went on a decent ride after work.  The custis is REAL!   950 feet of climbing versus the 350 of my normal commute.   

 So this morning I got out my scale and weight in, post some water, post a cup of coffee, post some yogurt.

 

197.2.  Down almos 12 pounds since my last weight in when the work ship show kicked off 2 weeks ago.  Yes I'm down some skelly bone mass and some muscle mass, but thats a bit and my body water weight percentage?  Up near near 2.5% over my typical 55.  So I'm not super dehydrated.   Holy weight loss batman.

 

Fun ride other than the 3 big climbs.  Last 2 miles of WOD is a shit show of people walking and riding badly.   Then 4 mile run is a mess with the construction/etc.  Then MT vern from airport upto the bridge by FDT KCenter, especially near the airplane watching space is a mega shit show of stupid people, stopping, standing and crazy ivan turns (hunt for red october reference).

But also may explain general tiredness last few weeks besides the stress.  Maybe lightest since maybe early 10's.   I've been at 200 or just a hair below a few times in past few years.

Wow.  

I'm off to eat some Bob's Oatmeal. 

It's all about the Bibs

 So first, I don't heavily identify as a Mamil.   But underneath?  Sigh.

 

So in riding once you make that jump to longer/regular rides eventually most sane people make the conversion from say Sport Underwear to some sort of padded bottoms.  In the 00's?  I had shorts with a washable padded liner.  For my short commute to work, it wasn't necessary (2.5 miles) but longer rides in the generally warm bay area?  Yah, especially on the MTB trails.

Later in the DMV region in the late 00's as I upped my riding especially in the early 10's I finally went from shorts to bibs and my posterior was rarely exposed (Yes I come from a LONG and illustrious line of folks who should be plumbers or cable repair/install based on how well pants cover the crack...sigh).   

So over the say 2010 to 2016 era as I was riding more and riding as part of a team for CX I bought bibs and some full kits for race days.  But after years, this year I decided to finally ditch 3 of my oldest bib sets.  They were doing more for friction than preventing friction/padding.  So i got recommendations on FB.  Lots of good ones.

 So I bought:

The Black Bibs w/Pockets - Good Pad, Nice to have pockets.  Wonky seams on the back especially for those pockets, a tad small in the legs for my spuds.   But overall nice material, and a pad I could see fine for up to 4 hours, no problems.

Primal Bibs with Omni Pad - I think a potentially better pad than the Black Bibs (and others).  Nice material.  Leg grippers that aren't too tight for me in the XL size.  No pockets.  Boo.  I think these will be my 6 hour set of bibs or so for longer days.

NeoPro - A decent pad.  But not a fan of the suspender material.  And in these ones I really might need an XXL if I ever ordered another set unless my legs magically shrink. Tight leg grippers but the one thing i do like is how the leg grips are setup/work versus the gel/silicon bands being exposed in all the others.  I probably need a longer ride in them to really get a feel for it, maybe today after work.

I'm probably going to order 1 more pair of the black bibs next month and I've already ordered another pair of Primal but with the next level of pad (helix).  But of course they sent that set Fedex and they hate my building as no doorbells and no one to sign.  

Final Gripes

• Powermeter battery seems....loose and so every few days - no more power meter on Fred.  Pull it, adjust....Back in Action.  Maybe a piece of tape to help hold battery in?
• Bars - I over rotated when I fixed them last week, they need a few degrees rotation down to a more flat position rather than the 2-4 gentle up level of current.  
• Saddle - Still need to get a better fitting saddle then eventual do a full bike fit.   
• Fendoors - I still need to figure out Fenders for Fred also.  With later April now being forecast for more rainy I need to get serious.   
• Chain Tracking System - Methodology to track the use of my Waxed Chains on Fred and Betty.   

 

Waxing 

Oy, on the subject of waxing....your chains.... I'm now on all 3 bikes having waxed chains.  Fred now has 2 chains in full hot wax dip rotation and Betty is on her 1st waxed and maybe willl have a 2nd chain in rotation.   It's SO much cleaner that not getting chain gunk on legs/pants/etc is still amazing.   But I'm really curious on how it will impact life of chains.  As a big guy I'm hard on them.  On MTB my last chain went for about 600 miles before being too stretched to not start causing wear.   And not sure on Fred either, I need to put the current chain on check soon actually.  It's got about 300-350, though only 100-120 are waxed.   

 Off to grab some Pizza for lunch then crank some writing for the remainder of the afternoon.

 

 

 

2 5 Stupid.

Instead of 6-7 like the tweens have been stuck on this past school year, lets stick to 2 5 and hopefully soon.  

 

Anyways someone asked me the other day how long had I been putting data into Original Recipe KFC (Blue) and New Recipe KFC (Orange)

Blue - Fall of 2010, though I was using there stuff maybe as far back as 2008?   No easy report.  BAH.  

Orange - May of 2013.  2400 logs in that since... 

 

For now I'm happy to get out and bike.  But lest ye forget, maintenace is a duty.  I again had another...fun....event with Fred at the end of last week.  I hit a bump in Gtown and the handlebars rotated down somewhere between 15 and Infinite Degrees.  Once again I was glad i was wearing pants.  I screamed like a kid.  I rode on a bit and took a break in Waterfront part to tighten the top 2 bolts on the stem face to about 2 uga-dughs.  That is a technical torque measurement when using a battery torque wrench, unfortunately all i had was a wimpy mini wrench.  I need to get it back a tad higher.

And I also noticed that the headset might be a weeeeee bit loose.  New bike blues?   Fred's at just under 500 miles and it's been since late December since he arrived and got ridden notably.    Makes some sense.

For future reference that's 5NM.  Sigh.  They were probably down in the 4's.  I'm also unsure if they are properly "pasted".  Would seem crazy.  I don't think I've been thru that much rain.   

 Due to work "FUN" with no emphasis on actual FUN I was in the office in DC all 5 days last week.  

 And I'm on track to be back in tomorrow. Sigh.  If it wasn't review season at work (doing my 5 pro staff) I'd be on the plan to take Friday off this week or next Tuesday.  But soon, it shall be at least 2 days off and away from tech (other the CP2077).   Oh well lots of bike.  Though hell I missed TNR last week due to work.  4 Commute days felt bonkers.  Maybe I'll half day tomorrow.     

Ooooouuuuchieeeee!

Okay so one of my least favorite experiences got repeated on a bike yesterday.   

 

 

Chain Breaker should be my title at this point in life.  Though I don't think I've had a full chain break like this since maybe 2015 when I got the RXC2 and the chain snapped on it in Accotink while going fairly easy in the first 120 miles on the bike.  This time I was on Fred and this was a fairly new KMC XFlat Pre-Waxed for SRAM AXS 12/13 and again the mileage at failure:

 

140 Miles.   Yep it's also happened on MTB chains back in 10 speed days.    High performance chains versus low performance human who weights more than 150lbs.  Climbing the Ascent Trail at WF on the MTB.   And then when you talk about worn chains?  Oh yah.  I once blew out 3 links in one ride on the MTB during the NoVA Epic back in the day.  I still blame Camp and Wrench as I was following them thru Accotink.... And Camp is my curse, I've also flatted a tubeless front tire while following him too.  

208 Lbers this morning...maybe a bit more on the 209 side, but still I'll call it 208.

Otherwise, a good month for riding hoping to hit the tidal basin and a few other spots tonight to get a solid end into March.    Wednesday has PM storms but then clear the next few days....Good riding other than being overly warm for the start of April.

 

 

Mad Mad March

Not sure how we got to late March from early February when I last posted.  Life?  Job?  Cycling?  Weird Weather?  Volunteering?  

It's all on this list I suppose.   Eating out too much also.  Lets just skip the weight in for this one huh?  I plan to re-weight in on Friday AM and if it's better I'll update then either way... hahaha

 Teasers of Spring and Summer here.  80'ish on Sunday, this morning it was 35'ish riding into work with a high of 50'ish today.  Warming up though.

• Jan 2026 - 15 Hours in 21 Logged activities covering 170 miles
• Feb 2026 - 14 Hours in 18 Logged activities covering 154 miles
• Mar 2026 - 20 Hours in 26 Logged activities covering 206 miles

 Yes thats a bit of it for sure, 6 more hours this month than last and I've got a week to go.  I'm going to go on a limb and predict 32 total activities near 250 miles by end of Tuesday.   Last 2 weeks I've gotten above 60 miles a week which feels awesome.  Riding more has shown real results in my Power.  Power readings are new since I got Fred.   In December - Feb most of my power normalization was 150'ish.  So far in March, I'm hitting at 170.  And my power over time?  I'm consistently pushing forward.   And my Avg power went from 180 in January to about 232 in a 20 minute block.  

 I'm no Lance thats for sure. And I'm glad.

 Major TW projects coming at Wakefield over the next months.   I need to book a day and do a major improvement/cleanup of Phase 4 soon.  Also need a new blade for the Saw...bendy bendy.  sigh.   

 For the first time other than maybe when I last ordered team kits, I've ordered 2 bib shorts.   Oh wow joys of Gmail, last order was in Dec 2015 and before that in spring of 2013!  I think one of the bibs I'm still using dates to the 2013!  oy.    

Holy Heavy Batman!

 Wow a brutal few weeks here in the DC metro region.  The snow-ice attack on the 25th of January was a much more  major event than 6-8 inches normally is due to it being 2-3 inches of Sleet/Ice in the top layer.  Then major freeze/minor melt off due to sun turned the top layer into Snow-crete in a way I've never really seen.  Just saw we had the 10th or 9th coldest period on record with 9 days below freezing in a row that ended Monday the 2nd.   Last similar one was in 1989, which I have a vague memory of.  

Did some necessary bike maintanence on the MTB.  Pulled down the drive train and fully cleaned and re-lubed BB and cranks and cleaned up half the rear pivots.   Also tried cleaning and lubing seat rails to see if it made the seat less creaky.  Couldn't really judge on the snow ride on Thursday the 29th.   Also did a re-wax on both Ichigo and Betty.  Ichigo had some weird results, I think due to a lack of riding it had very little penetration and most of the lube just didn't respond/bond in.   

Switched the studdlies onto Ichigo on Monday and finally rode into work on Tuesday.  The CCT was great down to DC Line, DC inward it was clear generally down to the bottom with about 60-70% fully clear.  On the way home due to the warmth I'd say DC section is now at near 90% clear minus re-freeze on melt off/etc.  Down at the start is the worst where DC only plowed 1.25 lanes.   DC itself?  Pooh.  Roads are you friends, bike lanes are terrible.  Intersections suck!  

A very long and slow ride back had to stop and change my listening a few times.  

So today I weighted Fred (The Newness) and Ichigo with winter setups.  Fred without GPS but everything normal (No rack or bag), is currently in at 27.3 LBS.  While Ichigo (with GPS) was at 28.5 LBS.  Jeez, the studs really do ramp up the weight!  I'd say maybe an extra 2 to 3 lbs at least and that's mostly in the wheels.   When I put the front wheel back on BB I plan to weight her with lights, bottle and bar mittz.  But I already know she's a thick lady, she's lasted better than any of the other Salsa Pony Rustler's frames.  Though I still miss the 130/120 geometry.  150/130 is just too much for me really.

 

Fred continues to surprise, though I do feel like at some spots I do miss the longer/wide range of gears on the 2x11 the 1x13 does have a lower range for those long slow climbs back up Mt. Bethesda.   Maybe I'll shoot out for a quick ride at lunch.   

Another shot of Fred:

 

To Fred or not to Fred

 Whats in a name continues to taunt me.   Well at least as much as how to get from the West side of Little B to the East Side.  Haven't felt that out...of....navigational control on an MTB in a Loooong time.  Kept ending up at the horse trailer lot in the NW corner of Little Ben.  

 For my own future reference: LB Trail Map

 

Otherwise some rides to get Fred (TBD) a bit more tuned and ready.  I think the saddle is a tad wide unfortunately.   And the Stem may need to be swapped down to a 80MM from 100.  2CM is a hair shorter than an inch.  Not really sure, I am strongly debating a Pro Bicycle Fitting session or two at this point.   It feels odd, but maybe finding out the right setup at this point is smart.  Hopefully it just works on this monstrosity that is Fred.

Looking a Rack and Pannier setup for commuting next.    I'm pretty set on a Ortlieb Quick Rack as I can take it off with no bolts in like 15 seconds.   Pannier/Bag wise....I'm really a bit stuck Ortlieb is a known quantity but I don't love the Vario setup.  In general a backpack is not super necessary in my view....somewhat.   Two Wheel Gear has a few really slick well divide bag/pack setups I like that are a tad cheaper.  I like the extra organization as my pack has lots of small/random things. (Chargers, Cables, Badges, Tools, Junk, Meds, etc).  For now I think I'm gonna order the rack.  Do some more research.  Arkel also has some cool stuff but more Canadian Bucks than even Ortlieb!  Jeez!   

 

Detail on Fred.  UDH and the sweeeet welds.  And oh yah the Farce RD.   

Zoom Zoom time to roll back up Mt.Doom Trail to Rivendell.   

 Fred....for now.... 

 

Whats in a name?

 So yes things have arrived.  Here's a thirst trap:

 

But now the REAL struggle begins.  What's in a Name?  I think a lot.  I've named many of my bikes and cars and such since being a kid.  Sure most of the time the name was "GDFPOS" or "HeavyAssCrapBMX" or such.   But of late I've generally felt a strong relation to naming them with Characters or Things aspirationally.  The CX ride has been Ichigo now for probably 6 or 7 of it's 10 year life mission at least.   The other day I was thinking about names like:

• Savage\The Savage
• TheFuture
• Fred
• BlueZombie
• Kitt\KnightRider
• Cobra Commander
• Sheppard
• The Normandy

More thought required.   Hopefully the right pedals arrive today.  These things are....trrbl.

 

Tomorrow, Tomorrow, there is always.... OOOOH YEAH!

 

Delivery imminent. 

Heck, I'd be more excited but honestly I'm wiped with how busy I've been at work.  Hell I forgot to order new pedals.  And light mounts.  Etc.  Etc.   Some are solved.

Go Avenga's

Finally, got 2 updates on the new hoopty, got a update frame was finished and they were doing graphix.  Now I just got the update that they are in the Ass-Sembly stage.  Go Avengers!

 

 

 

New Ride by end of next week?  ohhhhh yah!  Call me the Kool-Aid Man.

Wakefield on the 4th - Trails weren't too bad, say 90% but freeze thaw is around.  Low wet area's were wet'ish even 2 days later.   It was COLD AF by 9.  With windchill - say 25F.   Ugh. 

No Snow No Ice, just Rain

 Yuck 

 That is the only word to fit the commute this morning.  34 and cold rain.  Yuck.

 

No Snow.  No Ice.  Studded tires.  Bad Shifting (errr cassette not properly torqued I suspect) and brakes?  What Brakes!  the rotors on the 2 wheel sets are...radically different.  Like hugely.  I could barely get the discs in between the pads.  The rotors on the main set must be near EOL on thin-ness.  Holy crap.

 

Day 13 - Patience is a virtue.   

 

Off to re-tune my pad spacing, at least it's easy with TRP cable discs.    

Flo - rider

 Down in the FLA for the big bird day this week.  Not too bad honestly.  Though ask me after round 2 of christmas light work today and I may have a different answer.  

 

 What is the saying about the watched pot never boiling, same goes for bikes:

 

Hopefully the hit the green light on this and get up to speed post holidays.  Should be here before the fatman rolls in next month so I understand.  Hoping to get it by mid-month to get some solid epic rides in over the holidaze.

 Was hoping to get a longer ride in today, probably limited to some neighborhood hot laps.  Hopefully I start the GPS this time.  Missed almost first 4 miles on the ride on Monday.  Stupid watch GPS.  :) 

Commutes 2025

 Just had a moment to spend pondering my commutes this year so far.  Today was my 69th day of commuting in by bike.  I generally work 2 days a week where I can commute, 1 at VA Office where I can't and 2 at home.

I figure out of 52 weeks in a year, 2 are out due to holidays, 2 to vacations, 2 to travel/events, and 2 to truly nasty weather.   46 Weeks would be 92 Rides.   So mod to 90 rides.    This year I should be at 75 to almost 80 depending on how I stretch things.   With more travel and a few other things on the horizon (Meeting offsite tomorrow on a normal commute day for one).

 Put a new waxed chain on Betty earlier this week, on the CX bike it's been amazing so far.   It's soo much cleaner.  

 But MTB will be the test, the old GX 12 Speed chain was a bit over due at 540 miles in a bit over a year.   I can see I may try and get more MTB riding in especially this winter in MoCo.  We shall see.  

 It's also time to re-lube the waxed chain on CX bike, its at over 400+ miles since july and it's due!  Got a bottle of Silca Super Secret Stuff and will dope it this week.  No commute tomorrow and off to see an awesome show tonight.  Woot.

204 on Friday.  Not shabby.

 

Fall ya later 2025

 Fall is flying past already and I'm not sure where the 2nd half of summer went honestly from July thru September.  

Some of it was travel, great trip to Bos to hit up a work conference.  Great to see ole beanie town and get in a few runs.  Got to see Weezer at the MGM Music Hall as part of the conference.   Wow!  

Decent year riding so far, 200+ activities logged.  61 commutes by bike as of today.  Hopefully to hit 75 days of commuting.  It would be like what a 1.5 to 1.75 avg when you drop out a few commutes due to holidays/travel weeks/etc.   Next year 80?  We'll see how winter goes as that's what really slows the numbers down Jan thru early Mar. 1722 miles logged YTD in Strava, so not sure I will hit my 2k goal, but 

Garnin logged as follows so far, though the "walking",                

Type	Distance
Cycling	1711.2
Hiking	18.96
Other	15.96
Running	7.89
Walking	9.44
Grand Total	1763.45

 Weight - Floating a solid two ohhhh eat.   Not terrible.  I'm going to try and focus up a tad more and solidly get down to 205 or less before the holidaze.   

 

The world is truly a strange and in someways unrecognizable place these days.  Embrace kindness.  Question everything.   Persuasion/Compliance is everywhere!  :P  It's an in joke.

 Also if your in the DC area highly recommend the newly re-opened Milken Center for Advancement of the American Dream.  It's right near the whitehouse.  Some really cool info and amazing art, and other stuff.  And the building is really amazing.   

New Bike FY2026 - The New Commuter - TBD.   Mainly something capable of Racks, Fenders, Bigger Tires and a bit larger than the ole RXC.  The RXC is probably still a great CX bike but I haven't raced CX since 2017 or 2018 maybe.   New bike adventures await and next summer not having to have a sweaty backpack back will be a REAL nice thing. 

Doing plugs on side mount V6? SUUUUUCK.   Especially the back side.   Even more when you drop the last plug and socket into the pan underneath.  Many bad words.   

 

  

 

 

Shades of 2015 - Rainy Summer.

 Blerhg is useful for some things like looking back at Rain.

2015 was the last blockbuster year that included the W@W nearly catastrophe race with major flooding washing people down the run towards Accotink creek. 

 Near Wakefield we see

 May 2025: 7.82 Inches

June 2025: 5.48 Inches

July 2025: 4.58 Inches (14 days!).

 So in the last 75 days?   17.88 Inches - Average per day .238 of an inch, or .75 inches every 3rd day!

Not quite at 2015 levels but if july continues like this we could be way above 20 inches, I think at the end of august we were in the 25 inch range. 

Accotink Creek flooded 2x to the 8ft mark in the previous 2 days:

 

Plan  B again on Thursday the 17th, with highs in the 90's?  UGH tastic.

1 Tree down on the DC/MD CCT on the way into work, will it be fixed by the ride home?