A change in plans for Friday and I switched to another route from the one planned. A phone call from the AC company moved the installation from Tuesday to Friday. To ride a few extra miles I chose the “Kingwood to Ramsey Road – Huffman” route biking 39.04 miles. Until the change I thought I was setup to bike 200+ miles this week but not riding on Friday and possible rain on Saturday that looks doubtful. After today’s bike ride my week’s total stands at 141.13 miles. May now totals 461.58 miles, 200 more miles to reach my goal. With the month not quite half done I think my goal looks good.

My search for better audio in the video failed today. The sound was different but picked up road noise instead of my voice. The USB-C mic is not working. Next I will try the Rode VideoMic Go. It is much larger than the USB-C mic but uses a different cable to the GoPro mic adapter. So today’s video is mostly silent except for a short clip of me.

No mist during today’s bike ride though on Fairlake Drive some drops started coming down until I made the left turn onto Old Atascocita Road. That’s good because the only option if it started raining was to keep on riding with no shelter nearby except for the church just before FM 2100. Weather while I biked: start 81 (87% humidity, 77.0 dew point), mostly cloudy, wind S 10 mph. Finish 86 (76% humidity, 78.0 dew point), mostly cloudy, wind SE 15 mph. I wore shorts and a short sleeve jersey. For water I carried my CamelBak but after filling it before the ride water started coming out of the filler cap area. Unscrewing the cap and screw it back fixed the problem thankfully.

I had extra room under my helmet today thanks to a haircut yesterday. A lot of hair fell on the floor at the hair salon. I told Bobbie I felt light headed after the cut and because of the long wait to get it cut I got very attached to the hair.

At Ramsey Road I stopped for a break to eat a Blueberry Crisp Clif Bar. Photos of the Canyon Endurace there.

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At the rest stop I walked in some soft dirt filling my cleats with dirt. That made it hard to clip in and when I got home I used several tools to get the dirt out of the cleats. When I looked at the pedals I realized I needed to wash the Canyon too. My Sidi shoes have 23,672 miles on them and look like I may need to replace them in the not too distant future. (I track the miles using the SportTracks program which has the best gear tracking information)