I started today’s bike ride at 10:03 AM without being slowed watching the Vuelta a Espana which ended yesterday. The somewhat early start time gave me the idea to ride the Spring Creek Greenway for the first time in November. I decided to ride just to John Pundt Park on the greenway and ended up biking 37.39 miles. A good start for the week and boosting my month to date miles to 240.96, only 120 short of the 360 mile goal for November. Year to date I am at 8,417 miles (road plus Zwift). This the most miles I ever rode in a year and more time left in 2020. I finished the ride at 1:09 PM, 3 hours and 6 minutes after I started. Out of that time I rode 2:49:07. This was the 10th time biking the greenway in 2020. 8 times on my Lynskey R300 and 2 times on my Canyon Endurace.

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The Indian Summer weather continued from the weekend: start 77 (87% humidity, 72.6 dew point), overcast, wind SE 12 mph; finish 83 (70% humidity, 72.5 dew point), partly cloudy, wind SE 8 mph. One of the nice things about riding the greenway is the abundance of shade and wind break from all of the trees. The wind wasn’t strong today though. I did wear a long sleeve jersey under a short sleeve one for some reason.

Biking the greenway is different from the road. The are no stops unless I take one which I did once I reached Pundt Park to eat a Clif Bar before making the turn to head back to US59 and Kingwood. No stops means no rest like stopping for traffic lights and stop signs which give my legs a recovery time. Another difference is the many turns and few straight sections. For me top speed is 15 to 16 mph but other cyclists appear to go faster, or at least they look faster.

46% of the riding time I rode in power zones 3 through 7 according to the bike ride data summary from Golden Cheetah. 12% came in zones 6 and 7 of the 46%. That is higher than normal.

Strava recorded 4 awards on ride segments: a second fastest time, two 3rd fastest times, and a local legend on another. I was not expecting them but I did ride at a steady pace and Strava says harder than my usual efforts.