Fog to Sunshine, Pacelines Up, Comfortable Saddle – Round Trip Bike Ride to FM 2100
It’s Saturday which means today’s route is “Atascocita – FM 2100 – Walden”. Early morning fog starting lifting and around 8:45 AM I could see the sun and blue clouds. Before getting ready I made a batch of fruit salad for after the ride and beyond. I hoped starting the bike ride at 9:32 AM would not be too late to see other cyclists along the route. It turned out to not be late as you can see in the video.
Getting dressed I decided it would warm up enough during the ride to not wear leg warmers which was a good choice. To offset that I wore a long sleeve thermal jersey and a windbreaker jacket. That was fine for the first 15 minutes then a regular long sleeve jersey would’ve been better. At the 11:56 AM finish the jersey was soaked with sweat, the sleeves of the jacket were wet too. But I unzipped the jacket when I started getting warm and it didn’t feel too hot.
Weather conditions: start 68 (90% humidity, 65.3 dew point), mostly cloudy, wind NE 8 mph; finish 79 (62% humidity, 64.5 dew point), partly cloudy, wind NE 6 mph. The wind was light but riding east on Old Atascocita Road it seemed stronger as I pedaled hard to keep my speed up.
I rode my Canyon Endurace bike today with the Koobi saddle. It felt much better than the Fabric saddle on the Lynskey R300 on yesterday’s ride. When my new Bisaddle arrives I will move the Koobi to the Lynskey replacing the Fabric saddle.
10 times I biked today’s route in 2020. It is a recent addition due to the construction on FM 2100. Once that is completed I should return to biking through Huffman.But I will keep this route in my portfolio.
Golden Cheetah creates a colorful overview of today’s bike ride.
Yesterday my zone 6+7 power dropped but today it bounced back to 16% of the ride time. Ride distance of 32.43 miles took 2:20:15 moving time, overall was 2:24:11. The week mileage is now 169.83 miles; I didn’t realize I only needed .17 of a mile to get to 170.
