Before biking today it rained about.05″ with the forecast promising more. But the no rain window stayed open long enough for me to bike without getting more than sprinkled on several times. The sky looked threatening but I think my sunglasses enhanced that look. I started at 10:45 AM not long after I watching stage 3 of the Critérium du Dauphiné from France. I chose a southerly and eastern route on what I call “Atascocita – Walden – FM 2100”. I biked 33.31 miles which improved the week’s total to 81.96 miles and a good start towards my 800 mile goal for June. I need to average 27 miles per day to get there. I biked this route for the 7th time in 2021, 4 times on the Canyon and 3 times on the Lynskey bikes.

Today’s bike.

Humidity and dew point reflected the rain in the forecast which meant sweating a lot even though it wasn’t that warm. Weather conditions: start 79 (89% humidity, 75.1 dew point), overcast, wind S 9 mph; finish 79 (84% humidity, 73.3 dew point), light rain, wind W 9 mph.

I thought of the bike ride as somewhat of recovery after yesterday’s 48 mile ride. But with the wind below 10 mph there were times when I kept the speed at 17 to 19 mph.