Not the early start on today’s bike ride because I worked on the new mic setup for the GoPro Hero 7 Black camera. Amazon delivered it 5 days earlier than the projected arrival date in time to use it on today’s bike ride. The new mic resembles the Rode mic but cost about $40 less. After taking it out of the box and nice case it looked almost identical, It is the Comica CVM-VM10II Full Metal Compact On Camera Cardioid Directional Mini Shotgun Video Microphone. (No affiliate link).

Thinking about how to mount it on my Canyon Endurace bike I tried sliding the cold shoe mount into the rear light mounting bracket on my Lynskey R300. It fit nicely and tightening locking nut down held it securely. I remembered another light bracket in the garage that I refused to throw away and checked it for fit. Same result. Now to find the location to mount the bracket on the Canyon. The first spot was on the handle bar stem but the Canyon uses the H31 aero bars and the strap to hold the bracket wasn’t long enough to go around. Next I tried attaching the bracket to the arm of the outfront computer mount but I had to shift the computer mount forward to make space for the mic bracket. But that position blocked the computer screen. The final spot was on the handle bar left of the stem. The light bracket tightening strap was long enough and held it firmly. The mic is directional so it needed to aim up towards my head. I adjusted the light bracket by pushing it forward and the mic tilled up but not exactly where I wanted but close. Because the dead cat wind muff is big I opted to use the foam muff for today’s ride. Tomorrow I will use the dead cat muff. The sound is okay but not much better than the lapel mic I used yesterday, (check the video). Photos of today’s setup.

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The ride started at 11:23 AM as I rolled out on my Canyon Endurace bike. The route: “Atascocita South – Walden – FM 2100”. This is the first time to ride this specific route though I biked it’s close brother “Atascocita South – Walden – Huffman” 9 times this year before the road construction along FM 2100 caused me to modify it to avoid riding north to Huffman.

Warm and humid weather continued to hang around with last week’s chilly mornings almost forgotten. I wore an almost too warm kit that turned out to be okay when the sun hid behind clouds while riding in the shade. What I wore: shorts, long sleeve jersey, a short sleeve jersey. What is was like at the 11:23 AM start and 1:51 PM finish: start 77 (91% humidity, 74.2 dew point), mostly cloudy, wind variable 4 mph; finish 81 (7% humidity, 72.1 dew point), mostly cloudy, wind N 0 mph. The humidity made for muggy biking. This kind of weather probably will hang around until Sunday.

With today’s 33.1 miles my total for the week is 70.49 miles. Before the ride I needed 120 miles to reach my November goal. Now I am in double digit remaining territory at 86 miles to go.

I like all of the colors in the Golden Cheetah generated bike ride overview.

For a more detailed look at the ride Golden Cheetah presents this bike ride data summary. Power times in zones 3 through 7 fell from yesterday to 45% of the riding time; zones 6 + 7 was 8 %.

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No segment awards on today’s ride from Strava which said the ride was consistent with my usual effort.

No significant climbing on today’s route as RideWithGPS shows with this map.