Today was the first bike ride since my return from Florida. The Giro d’Italia rest day and a pending FedEx delivery caused me to start the bike ride at 8:44 AM and finish at 10:39 AM. I rode my “Kingwood-Community Drive-Valley Ranch” route for 26.47 miles on the Cervelo Caledonia bike. My month road bike miles now total 519.48 leaving 180.5 miles to reach my 700 mile goal for May. It was good to ride on familiar streets again.

This was the second time to ride this route in 2022. The previous time was January 5th. Near the end of the ride another cyclist was behind me until I turned onto Brookdale Drive in Kingwood. The brown and white dog along with the brown dog were at the Rock Creek and Northpark corner. They came out from behind the rock wall when I rode on the greenbelt on the other side of the street with brown and white dog barking and moving back and forth but not crossing the street. The other dog sat there. When I rode from the greenbelt onto Northpark Drive going west the brown and white dog ran behind the rock wall emerging behind me barking and chasing me. Fortunately I was ahead of that spot and he didn’t chase me very far.

Yesterday’s rain ushered in cooler weather today with high humidity and low wind, a change from what is was before I left for Florida. Weather conditions today: start 69 (humidity 90%, dew point 66), overcast, wind variable 7 mph; finish 70 (humidity 88%, dew point 66), overcast, wind NE 5 mph. I wore shorts, a long sleeve T-shirt and a short sleeve jersey. I noticed my red gloves are starting to fade to pink from the sun.

Link to AXS.SRAM.com activity report.

Yesterday I started putting the ICAN Cycling wheels together for the new Lynskey Helix bike that will arrive soon. After mounting the GatorHardshell 700x28c tire on the front wheel with lots of grunting and pushing I moved to the rear wheel. That’s when I noticed the lettering on the wheels said “alpha 46” not “alpha 50” like I ordered and the box label showed. I also found out I ordered the wrong brake discs. I need centerlock but ordered the 6 screw discs. I will return the wrong ones and ordered the correct ones. Centerlock lockrings are hard to find and don’t come with the discs. ICAN Cycling offered me a $20 discount to keep the “alpha 46 ” wheels which I will do.