3 Degrees Above The Threshold, Sweating Later
No early start on today’s Saturday bike ride. I waited for the temperature to warm up watching the stage 14 Giro d’Italia time trial. It looked warmer there. I decided the temperature was going to take too long to get to 70 degrees so I bundled up with shorts, leg warmers, long sleeve thermal jersey and wind jacket. After yesterday’s rain I didn’t want to miss another riding day and the opportunity to make this a 200 mile week. At 10:46 AM I pressed the start button on the Wahoo Bolt as I rode the Canyon Endurace bike to begin the “Atascocita – FM 2100 – Walden” route. The ride covered 31.55 miles by the1:10 PM finish time. My week total stands at 185.53 miles. The weather tomorrow (Sunday) should be warmer especially since the ride will start after church.
Today was the 6th time riding today’s route. Construction at FM 2100 shows progress with concrete poured south of Old Atascocita Road. Rebar is in place for more concrete pour west of the new concrete.
Yesterday while it rained I installed a new pair of Favero Assiomo Uno power meter pedals on my Lynskey R300. This will replace my PowerPod. The PowerPod collects interesting data but the setup can be troublesome and to download the data from the PowerPod requires me to remove it from the bike and take it to my computer. The Isaac program only runs on MacOS and Windows but my main computer is a Chromebook.
The chilly weather (by my definition) warmed up as I rode making my attire out of step. But I didn’t remove anything and sweated through to the end. The clouds broke up and sun shined down. I do think in cool weather I ride harder and put out more watts. Strava backed me up stating, “This was harder than your usual effort.” Weather conditions: start 63 (85% humidity, 58.5 dew point), overcast, wind E 7 mph. Finish 77 (79% humidity, 70 dew point), mostly cloudy, wind SE 16 mph.
My month mileage goal didn’t suffer too much from the day off. I am still ahead of the pace to get there. So far missing 3 days has not jeopardized reaching the goal. 135 miles to go.
Golden Cheetah program bike ride data break down.
