Sunday I took as a rest day of sorts. After church I came home, watched the replay of stage 21 of the Giro d’Italia and highlights of stage 6 of the Vuelta a Espana. Almost bike race overload. Next I worked on my GoPro camera microphone audio testing. Saturday I went to Best Buy and purchased a Rode VideoMicro mic after seeing a number of people using them. I attached it to my Canyon Endurace and went on short rides to test the sound. Making several changes I never could get the audio to a level that it could be heard like the lavaliere mic I used on Saturday’s ride. The problem Saturday was the mic didn’t record or made scratchy noises. Fast forward to today, after searching on Google I found some suggestions on using the Rode mic with my GoPro Hero 7 Black. I tried them but it didn’t help. Back to the lavaliere mic. I cleaned the male plug, twisted in the female socket in the GoPro mic adapter, mounted the mic and got ready to ride. Some photos of the mic setup.

Putting the mic setup to the test I began today’s bike ride at 11:46 AM on my Lynskey R300 bike. Since I reached my goal for October miles I decided a shorter than usual route would be okay. Choosing to ride to the north I biked on my “Kingwood – Community Drive – Valley Ranch” route going 25.63 miles. If you watch the video of today’s bike ride the mic setup came through much better than Saturday with the scratchy noise gone and my voice coming through clearly. Mission accomplished for sound on the video and the Rode mic will go back to Best Buy.

The weather will be changing to more fall like conditions as the week progresses making shorter bike rides more likely. Next week may be time to renew my Zwift subscription with some cold and wet weather possible. For now my goal is to ride enough miles this week to get to 800+ miles for October. After today I up at 743.7 miles. So it looks doable if the weather cooperates. Weather conditions for today’s bike ride: start 76 (84% humidity, 71.3 dew point), overcast, wind SE 12 mph; finish 81 (76% humidity, 72.5 dew point), mostly cloudy, wind SE 16 mph. The humidity made for a muggy ride which I didn’t help because I wore a long sleeve jersey under my short sleeve one. Despite the 16 mph wind I was able to improve my average speed after making the turn back to the south at Community Drive. I point this out various times in the video.

50% of the time during the ride my power was in zones 3 through 7 according to Golden Cheetah. 10% was in zones 6 and 7 which is good zones to be in but hard to stay there for long. It will be interesting to see how I do in Zwift.