Some fantastic spring weather today in February. I was able to start today’s bike ride earlier with wheel rolling at 11:28 AM. Not waiting on anybody today. I ride my Canyon Endurace bike north on my “New Caney – Tavola – Valley Ranch” route. The bike ride went 36.09 miles. this boosted my road miles for February to 257.2 leaving 143 miles to reach my goal for February. I don’t think I going to get there but I may get close. Including Zwift miles my total is 412.99, only 87 miles short of the combined goal of 500 miles. This one looks more reachable.

The video shows the bright blue sky and excellent spring weather. Weather conditions for the bike ride: start 74 (30% humidity, 40.8 dew point), a few clouds, wind S 10 mph; finish 77 (30% humidity, 43.6 dew point), a few clouds, wind S 10 mph. No need for leg warmers and I probably could’ve swapped a short sleeve jersey for the jacket but I wasn’t sure how the wind chill would be. I wore a new pair of Bellwether Endurance Gel shorts for the ride. These replaced a pair that I first wore on 8-2-2019.

By the time I reached Tavola I built my average speed to 14.2 mph. I thought once I turned back to the south that would go down but I held it until the southbound US59 frontage road at Kellington before Kingwood Drive. For some reason I seem to lose about a .1 mph average speed riding from Kingwood Place Drive to the frontage road. There is a slight incline on Kellington but I try to power through it, sometimes successfully and other times not. Power zone riding time according to Golden Cheetah was typical.

Strava said, This was harder than your usual effort.”