After yesterday’s successful video with good sound I moved the setup to my Lynskey R300 bike for today’s bike ride. The Lynskey’s handlebar stem allowed me to angle the Comica mic a little more upward toward my mouth to pickup my voice since the Comica is directional. I wondered how this would affect the audio on the bike ride. Listening to the edited video the audio improved slightly over yesterday. Now I need to replicate the angle on my Canyon Endurace for Friday’s bike ride. If you watch today’s video let me know what you think about the audio. There is a difference when I use the handheld Hero 7 Silver versus the Hero 7 Black with the Comica mic. Today’s video has 2 clips from the Silver but the majority of the video came from the Hero 7 Black. I’ve watched so many GoPro videos about mics on YouTube it pops up in the recommendation list. The camera and mic setup on the Lynskey today.

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Pushing the Bolt start button at 10:59 AM to begin the ride I set out on my “Atascocita – Walden – Huffman” route. But while the route name is familiar the roads I biked east of Lake Houston were a different set. I did not go on Fairlake Lane south of FM 1960 but continued to FM 2100 and made the u-turn east of the intersection to head back to Kingwood. This shortened the ride distance by about a mile to 31.02 miles. When the construction on FM 2100 reaches a point where I can bike there the original route configuration will return. Not sure when that will be but concrete is pouring in places.

I am within 23 miles of reaching my 360 mile goal for November. The weather has been very cooperative allowing me to ride 10 out of 12 days and 1 of the missed days I took as a rest day not a bad weather day. for the week the total stands at 133.87 miles. Based on the weather forecast I can ride each day so a 200 mile week looks possible.

Year to date mileage compared to previous years is now way beyond all the others. This graph shows the progression and delta between 2020 and the years starting in 2011.

Performance on the bike ride according to Golden Cheetah summary data shows 46% of my power output fell in zones 3 through 7. Of the 46%, zones 6 and 7 contributed 11%. About the same as yesterday. This route has two long segments (about 3.5 miles each) on FM 1960 where I rode strong improving overall average speed. This came in laps 4 and 5. My legs felt a little tired but not enough to slow me down too much. Wind was light in both directions.

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Weather conditions impact biking. Today I think it was favorable. I didn’t need to bundle up because it was warm. I wore shorts, long sleeve jersey, and a short sleeve jersey. Weather at the start and 1:20 PM finish: start 76 (60% humidity, 61.6 dew point), a few clouds, wind SE 6 mph; finish 82 (50% humidity, 61.2 dew point), a few clouds, wind E 7 mph. Sunshine ruled.

The link to today’s SportTracks bike ride summary.