The sun came up earlier today after Daylight Saving Time ended early Sunday morning but the temperature took awhile to get above 60 so I could start today’s bike ride, the first one in November after not biking on Sunday to watch the replay of stage 12 of the Vuelta. The pros climbed an insane mountain to the finish. At times they barely rode at 10 mph using gears way below normal.

A rest day at the Vuelta a Espana meant no conflict for biking today. As I watched the temperature slowly creep towards 70 I decided to get dressed for the ride. At first leg warmers were in the bunch of clothes I pulled from the closet but I made a choice to not wear them settling on shorts, a long sleeve thermal jersey, and a wind breaker jacket. Half finger gloves made the list to access the GoPro record buttons on both cameras.

By 11:24 AM the temperature moved to 69 degrees as I rolled off on my Lynskey R300 bike to start the ride. My legs were chilled until about 15 minutes into the ride when my body reached warmed up. After that they were okay unless I rode through a long stretch of shade. I felt okay with my choice to not wear leg warmers. I chose a northerly route what I call “Kingwood – Fm 1485 – Kingwood”. I rode a little farther north than FM 1485 to the north side of Caney Creek before circling under US59 to begin the ride back to Kingwood. This made the total distance come in at 32.28 miles. My goal for November is 360 road miles and 120 Zwift miles. Adding Zwift to the mix required reworking my spreadsheet.

With some decent biking weather in the forecast for the rest of the week I don’t know when I will start up my Zwift subscription. That’s okay since I like riding outdoors.

Weather while biked today: start 69 (37% humidity, 41.9 dew point), a few clouds, wind variable 7 mph; finish 70 (30% humidity, 37.4 dew point), a few clouds, wind NE 8 mph. I can’t believe how low the humidity and dew point were. That probably added to the chilly feeling while I biked.

The video today had sound issues. The only time my voice recorded was from the clips I shot with the GoPro Hero 7 Silver not using the mic adapter. The Hero 7 Black with the mic adapter produced the other noise. I need to figure out a way to know when the mic adapter is not recording. Twisting the mic plug in the jack usually works but not today or my twisting undid the connection.

Below is the ride data summary from Golden Cheetah which confirms Strava’s statement that today’s bike ride was harder than my usual efforts. Riding the Lynskey with the new 32mm tires rather than the old 30mm ones I replaced produced a smooth ride with the pressure at 80 psi.

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