Today is the first bike ride since we returned from Florida. Yesterday it rained until late afternoon keeping me off the bike. That gave me time to install some new sensors and waxed the chain on my Blue Norcross AL bike and put the repaired PowerPod back on the Stradalli Red Pro 14 bike. I am not sure what Velocomp fixed in the PowerPod but my Elemnt computer saw it when I started the bike ride at 11:16 AM. But the PowerPod would display power on the Elemnt screen. I stopped to be sure it was paired and even removed the sensor from the Elemnt and added it back in. Still no power readings. After doing that a couple of times I held the PowerPod start button long enough to begin the sample ride process. After it counted up to 100 the watts showed on the Elemnt screen. Now I was a happy biker. I did need to edit the power readings using the Golden Cheetah program because there was a spike showing over 32000 watts right after the PowerPod completed the setup calculation.

I didn’t notice any changes while we were in Florida as I biked the the “Atascocita – Walden – Huffman” route for a total of 33.46 miles. My goal for May is a lowly 300 miles and I am at 173.45 miles with today’s bike ride.

The weather was pleasant during the bike ride. when I got up this morning it was a cool 67 degrees. By the time I started bicycling it was 77 and at the end of the ride (1:49 PM) it had warmed up to 84 degrees. A partly cloudy sky and light 7 mph breeze meant I did not sweat too much though after not riding for many days I needed to lose a few pounds. Later today or tonight a “cool” front may arrive dropping the overnight temperature into the upper 50’s, cool for this time in May. By the time I bike tomorrow it should be in the 70’s.

Links to RideWithGPS.com and Strava.com.

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