The wind quieted down from yesterday when I started today’s bike ride at 10:35 AM. This is the first ride I started before 11 in some time. I rode my Canyon Endurace over the “Atascocita – Walden – Huffman” route for 33.41 miles. This was the 21st time biking this route in 2021, 17 times on the Canyon and 4 times on the Lynskey R300. I finished at 1:12 PM, much earlier than the other rides this week.

Midway through the ride while going east over Lake Houston the wind felt stronger than the 10 mph at the start. I stopped at FM 2100 and Old Atascocita road to check the weather and the wind had picked up, 13 mph from the south with 22 mph gusts. With the earlier start I chose to wear shorts, a long sleeve jersey, and a short sleeve jersey. The sun was in and out of the clouds and the extra jersey compensated for the slight chill when that happened. Overall weather: start 76 (humidity 84%, dew point 71), mostly cloudy, wind S 10 mph; FM2100 at Old Atascocita Road mostly cloudy, wind S 13 mph gusts 22 mph; finish 79 (humidity 74%, dew point 70), mostly cloudy, wind S 9 mph.

After fighting the wind yesterday I thought my legs might not be up to another headwind but they came through. Monday when I rode in Zwift and did some climbing did it help with the wind yesterday and today?

Any day it seems FM 2100 southbound lanes will open for traffic. The video shows what it looks like.

I thought I might see other cyclists with the earlier start but no one crossed my path.

According to Strava I am now the local legend on these two segments: Local Legend on Havenbrook sprint and Local Legend on Havenbrook Sprint – SAFE. I need to check what the difference is between them.