(In the video I say Monday’s bike ride was in the rain but it was Tuesday’s bike ride)

Today’s bike ride followed the route I tried to use on Tuesday but ran into rain and shortened the ride. The weather for today’s ride was the opposite of that; blue sky nice humidity and dew point, and a light wind at the start. I watched stage 18 of the Giro d’Italia before getting ready which finished there before the rain arrived. Rolling away at 10:36 AM on my Cervelo Caledonia on the “Atascocita – Walden – Huffman” route and finishing at 1:15 PM. During that time the wind picked up making the return to Kingwood harder than I expected.

I’m getting closer to my 700 mile goal for May with 609 miles after today’s bike ride. The Cervelo now has 2,088 miles on it.

While I watched the bike race I worked on setting up my new Lynskey Helix bike that arrived on Monday. I waited until today because I need the disc rotors which arrive today. Most of the work was removing the packaging materials. I think I now own a year’s supply of bubble wrap.

Weather conditions for the bike ride: start 83 (humidity 49%, dew point 62), fair, wind SW 8 mph; finish 88 (humidity 37%, dew point 58), fair, wind W 10 mph gusts 18 mph. At the end of the ride salt stains adorned my gloves, arm sleeves, and shorts. This might be the humidity and dew point lows for quite some time according to Space City Weather.

I adjusted the route a little at the start and while riding through Kingwood Greens to add some more distance. As you can see in the list below I ride this route frequently with 10 rides so far in 2022. Today was the longest distance so far. 8 rides on my Cervelo and 2 on the Lynskey R300.

Looking at the AXS.SRAM.com activity report page, moving time was 2:34:10. Of that time I spent 1:21:49 using the 35×15 gears and 49:23 in the 35×13 gear combination. That reflects the headwind time mostly and my leg power riding into the wind. Distance was 17.7 miles for 35×15 and 12.6 miles for 35×13. I made 22 RD shifts.

I think taking some time off the bike during my trip to Florida allowed my legs to recover some.