I was heading to the door to leave on the ride this morning when I tried to turn on my Garmin 305 Edge GPS. The screen would not come up so I started to wonder what was wrong. I plugged in the USB cable and the charging mode started up. The battery was almost down to no charge. I thought I had finished the charge cycle after my Thursday evening ride, in fact I am certain. But I had some issues downloading that ride from the 305 and my computer crashed twice. I ended up removing the Garmin USB drivers from the computer and then the download worked. There might have been something that set the 305 in the active mode again and drained the battery. Anyway today’s ride is based on a previous ride on a similar route.

This was going to be a different ride because a friend, David Mowry, was driving up from Kema to ride with me. He is into triathlons and needs to get more riding experience. So I met him and we took off. Along the ride on FM2090 west of Splendora a group of riders were coming towards us. There were probably 8 or so. They were moving pretty fast. I am guessing they were from The Woodlands Cycling Club. It was good to have a fellow rider to comment about what and how the ride was going.

Today’s weather was cool at the start of the ride (55 degrees when I left home) but when I finished at 1:23 PM it was 76 degrees. I dressed warm for the ride and left my windbreaker at David’s van. The clear skies soon became mostly cloudy as the southeast wind blew the clouds in at 9 mph. It was a fast paced ride with David pushing some big gears when we had the wind behind us. I needed to pick up the pace when David lead out on FM2090. This is good because when I ride alone there is no one to push the pace.

Not much data for today’s ride:

• November miles 200.31
• YTD miles 4803.28

The only thing I have is the weather status when I finished.

11-20-2010 Weather at the end of the ride.