What A Difference A Week Makes
Today’s ride was 40.65 miles compared to last Saturday’s 74.4 miles at the Hotter’N Hell 100. The temperature here was a lot lower too ranging from 83 at the start (11:01) and 88 at the finish (2:16). Hello Fall? I averaged 16.2 mph on the Stroker Road – Huffman route. Even with the late start I saw two other bikers, one on Stroker Road and the other on Old Atascocita Road east of FM2100.
The sky had lots of clouds with a big rain disturbance off to the east near Beaumont. According to the weather man at the Houston Chronicle the rain would stay south of I-10 so I didn’t plan on rain during the ride and that was the way it turned out. I was well north of I-10.
Before the ride I was reading a post by Ray Garza at RGVCycling.com about the iBike Newton. This caused me to start thinking about the power I output during biking and how my Garmin Edge 510 doesn’t record that without a very expensive sensor setup. The iBike is not low cost but it is a lot less than the power meter sensors that work with the 510. I am thinking do I want to spend that money on this? I am still trying to figure that out.
Even with the lower temperature perspiration was flowing heavily today when I stopped at the Huffman Chevron around the 29 mile point. I could tell as I was riding this was happening with the sweat dripping off my chin when I dipped it. I stopped at FM2100 and Stroker Road waiting for traffic and I created a big wet spot on the pavement. Later at the Chevron I sat on a Greensheet newspaper and it was wet when I got ready to leave. The paper towels IÂ used a the Chevron were totally wet too.
I am playing around with Google Earth too. I found out one of the programs I use, SportTracks, will show the route in Google Earth. This is what it shows:
I was hoping to have a live on the web map but I haven’t seen how to do that yet. I can manipulate the ride in Google Earth on my computer though.
August miles now total 968.58, 3 miles below June’s total of 971. I plan on riding tomorrow to set anew monthly high for the year. This week I rode 172.45 miles so far. I skipped yesterday to take of some things. Year to date moved to 5181 miles.
Links to Garmin Connect and RideWithGPS.com.
