The wind slowed down and the temperature went up, a good combination. After watching the ITT at the Volta Ciclista a Catalunya I got ready for my bike ride. Not as intense as the ITT but that’s okay. Starting at 11:48 AM I rolled away on my Canyon Endurace CF SLX bike riding what I call the “Atascocita – Walden – FM 2100” route. With the new starting streets in Kingwood I biked 33.66 miles. This si the 4th time biking this route in 2021. My week now totals 70.37 miles and March stands at 525.2 miles, 75 miles away from my goal. With 1,856 miles year to date I am 17 miles less than 2020 at this date. I finished the bike ride at 2:19 PM.

Photos at FM 2100 and Old Atascocita Road

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Before sunrise this morning a thunderstorm front moved through the area dropping .42″ of rain. By the time I left on my bike ride the streets were dry which made the timing perfect. The weather conditions for my bike ride: start 73 (59% humidity, 57.6 dew point), fair, wind variable 7 mph; finish 79 (34% humidity, 48.3 dew point), haze dust, wind W 12 mph. After yesterday’s strong wind today was much better though it did increase while I was on the road. I dressed lighter with shorts, a long sleeve jersey, and a short sleeve jersey on top. The choice felt comfortable the whole ride.

I tried a different camera setup using the Drift camera mounted on the handlebar stem and the GoPro Hero 7 Black as the handheld. The Drift audio was bad so the portions of the video with music was the Drift clips without the audio. I am trying to figure out how to get the Drift audio to resemble the GoPro. The clips are shorter too.

Golden Cheetah summary data from the bike ride.

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