I wasn’t sure if I was going to start today’s bike ride before 9 AM but I made it riding away at 8:52 AM on my Canyon Endurace bike. I rode south and east to Spanish Cove Drive following my Atascocita – Walden – Spanish Cove Drive route. I made a couple of small changes leaving out a side street loop in Bear Branch Village and adding one in Kings Forest Village.

Checking the sensors before the ride the speed sensor LED wasn’t blinking. I thought maybe it would work once the ride began but the Bolt computer didn’t show it connecting. The sensor is one I wasn’t using until the Canyon bike arrived. Maybe something was wrong with the sensor? At Towne Center Park I stopped, removed the sensor, flipped the battery over to reset the sensor, and put the battery back in. Still no blinking LED. I put the sensor in my jersey pocket and rode on using the GPS on the Bolt for speed. I thought the sensor might be bad since I replaced the battery last week. After the ride I checked the battery and it was dead. I buy the cheap Harbor Freight CR2032 batteries, this one might have been defective. I put a new battery in and the LED blinks now. I’ll check it on the next ride.

Weather continues to be a hot issue with a heat advisory for today and an expected high of 99 to 100 and the heat index above that. I start before 9 AM so I can finish before it gets real hot. Today I completed the ride at 11:46 AM and it was getting hot. Weather during the ride: Start 85 degrees, 73% humidity, dew point 75.7, partly cloudy, wind S 6 mph; Finish 92 degrees, 59% humidity, dew point 75.3, partly cloudy, wind W 9 mph. No gusts today. I felt cooler when I rode in the shade.

Today’s route is one I ride often, fourteen times in 2023 but 2 weeks since the last ride. Passing the tiny truck sales lot there were even tinier tiny trucks with the spare tire on the front on one. Biking 35.65 miles today was average for the route and bumped June’s total to 862.05 miles, well above my 800 mile goal for the month.

The AXS.SRAM.com ride report shows 33 rear derailleur shifts, 1:41:31 using the 35×13 gears (24 miles), and 41:31 using 35×15 gears (7.7 miles). Strava notified me of 3rd fastest time on NASCAR (1:14). I had to look at the map to see that was in Towne Center.