I got a late start on today’s ride. I messed around with my cell phone and what should be an hour exercise turned into 3 hours. So out the door at 11:51. Thankfully with the first day of fall the temperature stood at 86 degrees. The clear sky gave way to some fluffy white clouds and not much a breeze. Fortunately the humidity stayed somewhat low at 46% and the temperature only increase 3 degrees by the time I finished at 2:10 PM.

If I started earlier I probably would have met a bunch of bicyclists coming back as I left on Old Atascocita Road and Fairlake Dr. but no one appeared. After yesterday’s 41 mile ride today between leaving late and not needing to get many miles the route to Huffman and back totaled 29.75 miles at 15.6 mph average speed. My max speed was 23.6 mph and average cadence rolled in at 79.9 RPM. Riding time was 1:54:16 and I stopped an even 25 minutes mostly at the Huffman Chevron to drink a Diet Pepsi. So far this week I rode 159.15 miles and 466.03 miles in September making it 5183.29 miles YTD.

I held a steady pace for the 5 mile legs except for the first and last where the residential streets and stops slow me down.

I rode 64.5% of the route in the Zone 3 speed (17.5 to 20.8 mph). The second 5 mile leg is where I made up the time lost in the first one. For another view of the ride metrics look at Gramin Connect and RideWithGPS.com.

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