The weather slowly approached my low temperature threshold and I rolled out at 1:16 PM, not as early as I wanted but still allowing enough time to ride the “Kingwood- Community Drive-Valley Ranch” route for a total of 27.33 miles. The time limit revolved around the start time for the UC Bearcats basketball game at 4 PM in the semi-finals game against Wichita State in the American Athletic Conference tournament. I finished the ride at 3:16 PM so I should be good.

Weather during the bike ride: start 61 (35% humidity), mostly cloudy, wind E 10 mph. Finish 63 (31% humidity), mostly cloudy, wind NE 6 mph. To combat my getting cold I wore shorts, leg warmers, thermal long sleeve jersey, short sleeve jersey, and full finger gloves. Even with all of this I felt chilly for about 15 minutes into the ride. By then I generated enough body heat to not think about the wind chill too much.

I am reaping the benefits of the new rear 11-28T cassette gearing. My pedaling and effort seemed better matched. Today I was able to improve my average speed almost the entire ride getting to 14.0 mph just as I got back to Kings Manor and then Kingwood.

The Canyon now has 8101 miles since late February 2018. The Continental GatorSkin tires have about 6000 miles on them. I probably can go another 1000 to 1500 before replacing them.

Sunday it should warm up a few degrees so I plan on continuing the quest to reach 585 miles for March. At this point I am at 342.29 miles.

I still lag behind 2016, 2017 and 2018 in miles YTD. Only 28 miles behind 2018.