Today’s bike ride was off at 8:25 AM, the earliest start time this week. I wanted to start about 20 minutes earlier but I couldn’t get everything ready. I rode my Cervelo Caledonia bike on the “Atascocita – Huffman – Walden” route for 32.35 miles. Those miles bumped my week total to 228.7 miles and May to 250.09 miles. My goal for May is 700 miles. Year to date I am at 2551 miles, 24 miles behind 2021 and 175 miles less than 2020.

The reason I like to start Saturday bike rides early gives me the opportunity to see other cyclists. Today I saw numerous cyclists starting on Kings River Drive on the way to Huffman. I think I got all of them in the video though the last group was from a distance.

So far this year I biked this route 6 times. All 6 times on my Cervelo Caledonia bike. The distance typical for the route as was the effort number.

Finally the wind let up staying in the single digits for the whole ride. Weather conditions: start 75 (humidity 99%, dew point 75), mostly cloudy, wind SE 6 mph; finish 84 (humidity 70%, dew point 73), mostly cloudy, wind SE 8 mph.

Thanks to the light wind I rode 1:23:27 in the 35×13 gearing out the total ride time of 2:21:22. Distance was 20.8 in 35×13. The 35×15 gearing time was 37:40 or 7.6 miles. The AXS.SRAM.com ride report recorded 29 RD shifts.