80% Humidity, Large Turkey Captured, Fabric Not So Good, Misbehaving GoPro’s
Back to a route I ride regularly for today. Starting at 11:31 AM on my Lynskey R300 bike I headed north on my “Kingwood – SH 242 – Kingwood” route. I finished at 2:25 PM after biking 35.87 miles. My week now totals 137.4 miles and November totals 547.72 miles, well passed my 360 mile goal. Year to date I am at 8,724 miles more than I ever biked in a year. Before I retired in 2011 a good year was 4,500 to 4,800 miles.
The ride video is different: shorter length, no music just me talking, and no gauges. This speeds up the editing. The Hero 7 Black camera failed twice and the Hero 7 Silver camera which is usually reliable failed once too.
That low humidity and dew point weather has left the building. The overnight low was 65 degrees versus 39 degrees on Monday. When I began today’s bike ride it was 77 prompting me to lighten up on my bike kit: shorts, short sleeve jersey, and arm sleeves. I was comfortable for most of the ride until the last few miles when I rode in the shade more and the wind cooled me off. 80% humidity at the beginning made for a muggy ride thankfully that went down to 65% by the end. The dew point didn’t change as much; 70 going down to 67 when I finished.
A few times lately I mentioned seeing a number of large inflated turkeys in front yards. Today I captured one in Woodridge Forest.
So far in 2020 I rode today’s route 12 times; 10 on my Canyon Endurace and 2 times on my Lynskey R300. Generally the route remains the same except at the SH 242 US59 overpass where construction barriers eliminated one lane in every direction. Fortunately traffic was light and I maneuvered the lane changes.
Yesterday I wrote about changing the saddle on my Canyon Endurace from the Fabric one to the Koobi. My Lynskey also has a Fabric saddle. ON today’s bike ride I noticed how uncomfortable the Fabric saddle is compared to the Koobi. When my new BiSaddle arrives next week I will remove the Fabric saddle from the Lynskey and add the Koobi.
No big change in the overall average speed on the ride. I rode fast enough to register 14.1 mph from FM 1485 to Kingwood Drive where slowing to go under US59 it fell to 14.0 mph. My zones 6+7 power output dropped big time from yesterday to 8% from 16%. With the headwind back to Kingwood I thought I was needing lots of power but I guess not. The bike ride data summary from Golden Cheetah.
