What a difference the riding direction made today. Heading north during the first half of the ride was an easy 19.4 mph but when I turned to head back home I was fighting the wind. I could tell the wind was strong but I did not how strong it was. When I checked the weather I saw the wind was 16 mph with 22 mph gusts from the south. The good part was the temperature this wind brought with it, 79 degrees. Scattered clouds were appreciated. After yesterday’s ride this was going to be the recovery ride but with this brutal wind I was battling the bonk. The warm weather is supposed to be with us until Wednesday. According to the SciGuy blog there has not been a recorded temperature at Houston of 90 degrees or above in November.

I only saw one other rider and that was near the end when a rider in a University of Michigan (I think) caught up with me.

The Garmin 305 was working today. No battery issues but when I tried to upload the ride into my Windows 7×64 bit computer I got three BSD’s before I managed to get the data. I have tried another fix by deleting the grmnusb.sys driver file and installing one from the Windows Update instead of the Garmin supplied file. I will see if this fixes the problem.

Tomorrow evening’s ride will be warm and the second one on my new Motobecane 700HT MT. I will test my latest adjustments.

Today’s ride information:

• November miles 225.37
• Miles this week 104.94
• YTD miles 4828.34

11-21-2010 Ride Information

Additional charts, weather and map.

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