After taking two days off since my last bike ride on Friday I started today’s ride at 11:40 AM using the “New Caney – Tavola – Valley Ranch” route. I biked 35.42 miles. December now totals 106.8 miles. Year to date I rode 7408.2 miles on the road and 368.8 miles virtual biking for a total of 7,777 miles. This surpasses my total miles for 2018 and with several days left in the month I plan on building on that.

Who would think December 9th the temperature reaches 81 degrees? When I started the ride 79.7 degrees showed n my home weather station and at the 2:25 PM it moved up to 80.8. Weather while I biked: start 80 (72% humidity, 69.9 dew point), overcast, wind SW 13 mph. Finish 81 (68% humidity, 69.2 dew point), mostly cloudy, wind SW 8 mph. I probably overdressed with shorts, long sleeve jersey, and short sleeve jersey but sweating is not a problem. A front passes through tonight so Zwift will be my biking on Tuesday.

The tailwind on the ride north to Tavola helped me set a good pace. I dreaded the impending headwind on the ride south back to Kingwood. The headwind slowed me some but I kept my overall average speed about the same. When I rode behind windbreaks I picked up the pace to compensate for the out in the open slower riding. My rested legs pedaled me through without complaining.

Last week I received my FitBit Versa 2 smartwatch. Today I figured out how to use it to record my bike ride effort. The numbers were higher than what the Wahoo Elemnt and other sensors recorded. The big difference was in th distance: FitBit showed 38.8 miles versus 35.42 miles on the Elemnt. The Versa battery takes a hit when I used it to record the ride.