My initial route choice got bumped when some of the roads might repeat on tomorrow’s longer ride south around Lake Houston. I changed to the Atascocita – Walden – Indian Shores Road route which also includes roads from tomorrow’s planned ride but not east of FM 2100 or as far south. I rolled away at 9:37 AM on my Cervelo Caledonia bike. With the probability of rain much lower I thought I would risk riding the Cervelo. While eating breakfast I watched stage 10 of the Giro D’Italia until there was about 49km to the finish. I would watch the replay after the ride along with day 1 of the 4 Jours de Dunkerque.

The weather improved from yesterday. Sun and what felt like lower humidity helped. Conditions: Start 78 degrees, humidity 77%, dew point 70.4, partly cloudy, wind W 4 mph; Finish 84 degrees, humidity 64%, dew point 70.7, partly cloudy, wind W 7 mph.

This was the fourth time on this route since it is a new one. I wanted to ride at least 37 miles and ended up biking 38.98 miles. I’m chipping away at my 750 goal for May with 501.75 miles now, 67% of the way there. I finished at 12:36 PM. Today’s ride was the shortest distance of the four. I must’ve left out some streets. I need to check the previous rides before the next ride on the route. I rode the Rocky Woods loop in Kings Forest thinking it would add a few 10th’s of a mile. In the video I cover the power and cadence sensors not showing data on the Bolt computer. I powered of the Bolt without saving the ride and when it powered up the ride restored and the power and cadence reported data. I had this problem riding the Lynskey Helix bike but this is the first for the Cervelo. If it happens again I will “forget” the power meter sensor and add it back.

There were 7 starred Strava segments on the ride but I didn’t get any new records. I contested 2 of them and the others I went quickly but not all out. Checking the AXS.SRAM.com ride report I used the 35×13 gears 1:49:58 (26.9 miles) and the 35×15 gears 42:05 (8.1 miles) making 22 rear derailleur shifts.