Today’s ride start was delayed (12:00 start time for me)  because I was watching stage 12 of the TdF and the struggle to determine the overall standings. I was watching live and saw the crash but no one could figure out what the finishing time was going to be. Fortunately my ride was not near as complicated. I biked the “Atascocita – Walden – Huffman Extended” route for a total of 33.66 miles putting this week’s miles at 161.35. This should set me up to reach 200+ for the week with 3 biking days left.

The weather is still July type: hot (100 degrees when I finished according to my home weather station), dry and not so windy today. I produced a lot of sweat and every time I stopped the sweat flowed. No other bikers were out riding on the route. I went through two water bottles during the ride plus a very large PowerAde when I stopped at the Huffman Chevron. I arrived there at 1:28 PM and left around 2:05 much better hydrated. The Wahoo Elemnt screen and weather.

Nothing out of the ordinary on today’s ride. I looked for something to take a picture of but nothing caught my attention.

I meant to write about my experience with the Wahoo Elemnt bike computer yesterday but I forgot. I am very pleased with how it is working. All of the problems I had with the Edge 520 disappeared when I switched to the Elemnt. The Garmin speed and cadence sensors work well. The cadence sensor is slow sometimes to begin reporting at the very beginning of the ride but I think that is because I don’t pedal fast enough to trigger it to wake up. If I pedal fast it wakes up quickly and sends the data to the Elemnt. The speed sensor does not go through the same delay and the speed shows up immediately. During the ride there are some speed drops that look like the sensor is stop sending data but it lasts a second or two and then it is back to full speed. At the end of the ride the data is uploaded to the three websites I selected but once in a while Garmin Connect will not accept the connection and I upload the ride manually. The screen is very easy to see in the bright July sun and the buttons advance the pages quickly. The map is not fancy but I can tell where I am. The Live Track works each ride unlike the Garmin. My phone connects to the Elemnt quickly and every time. After 1,074 miles riding with the Elemnt I know I made a great choice.

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My home weather station at the end of the ride.