It may not seem very warm to you, but it was a definite improvement over the start. The only time I felt like quitting was before and just after DuQuoin. I figure that my sleepiness was due to a dropping core temperature. And after we rode out of DuQuoin, I couldn't get warm. Despite pedaling the biggest gear I had I continued to shiver. It took me several miles to warm sufficiently for the shivering to stop and my confidence to return. Now that we've got the first one in for the new year, the rest of the year will rock! In fact, this is the start of a new decade. I guess the rest of the decade will rock, too!!