March biking starts well with 34.37 miles today riding the “Atascocita – Walden – Huffman” route. My goal for March is 585 miles, 240 miles more than February. Hopefully the weather will cooperate.

Third bike ride on the Canyon Endurace CF SLX. It continues to be a delight to ride. The disc brakes eliminates several components that catch the wind like the front brakes on the Stradalli. The disc brakes don’t squeal like the rim brakes do on the Stradalli with carbon rims.

The wind will not let up just because a new month started. Weather: start 74 (65% humidity), finish 78 (45% humidity), partly cloudy, wind N 10 mph gusts 25 mph. At least the first 13 miles had a tailwind until I made my way through Walden. Riding east over Lake Houston on FM 1960 made me look forward to the return trip with a somewhat tailwind versus the head wind riding east. I left home at 11:43 am and finished at 2:10 pm.

Two other cyclists were along the route. The first one was ahead of me biking to the west on FM 1960 over Lake Houston, I could just see the orange jacket/jersey in the distance but I could get closer. The other biker was on Kings River Drive as I made my way to W. Lake Houston Parkway. I need to take some pictures of the flowers blooming along the route.

While I was out biking FedEx made a visit to deliver my birthday present from my wife: the TICKRFit from Wahoo Fitness. This is the first heart rate monitor for me. I plan on giving it a test on Friday’s bike ride. Since the PowerPod is not in service while I wait for the out front mount the TICKRFit will provide data on how my heart is doing during the ride. It should work nicely with the Wahoo Elemnt computer. It was easy to setup.

Friday’s weather forecast looks like a repeat of today.

SportTracks Bike Ride Summary

Link to Strava Bike Ride Summary