Yesterday 90 degrees, today 66 degrees. My body and bike ride plans didn’t adjust to that very easily. My Zwift subscription ended and the next day the weather changes drastically. Good timing. I watched the temperature slowly move from 52 degrees while I ate breakfast to 60 by noon thinking no bike ride today. I watched the women race a Zwift Classic Race over a 15.7 mile course planning on that being the extent of my biking but around 2:30 PM the temperature got to 65 and I decided to go for a bike ride.

At 65 degrees I wear leg warmers because I am a temperature wimp. A month ago I bought a new pair so today I pout them into service. A previous pair of L Garneau leg warmers lasted several years so I bought another pair. The Jambieres 2 is what the label says but I think that is French for leg warmers. They kept my legs comfortable during the bike ride.

I don’t remember starting a bike ride this late since I retired in July 2011. Wheels rolled on the Lynskey R300 at 3:18 PM. I chose the “Kingwood-Community Drive-Valley Ranch” route because of the late start. The ride today covered 26.47 miles, better than the 0 miles I thought before getting started. Those miles pushed my April total to 401.28 miles, 199 miles away from goal of 600 miles. Actually the goal now is 612 miles since I fell 12 miles short of my Zwift goal and my subscription ended so I need 218 miles.

I didn’t mention the wind. Besides the temperature change the wind during the bike ride was stiff: N 9 mph gusts 18 mph at the start and N 8 mph gusts 20 mph when I finished at 5:18 PM. Getting to Community Drive meant a headwind all the way but a nice tailwind on the trip back to Kingwood. I took advantage of the tailwind to build my average speed to 14.3 mph until I returned to the frontage road from Kellington Drive. Even with the headwind I managed 13.4 mph by the Community Drive turn.

Today’s video includes fellow bikers I passed along the route.

I missed a few bikers who appeared faster than I could hit the record button on the GoPro.

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