Paris-Roubaix Race Replay Shortened Bike Ride
In order to get back home sooner to watch a replay of the Paris-Roubaix race I opted for the slightly shorter “Atascocita – Walden” route for a total of 25.08 miles. After getting home from church I started the bike ride at 12:34 and finished at 2:25. My wife is not a fan of the Paris-Roubaix race so I watched the 26 minute final 15 k replay on the computer. I planned on watching the NBC Sports Gold version but Flash kept crashing in the Chrome browser causing me to watch the EuroSport replay at Steephill.tv.
Nothing unusual happened on the bike ride with fantastic weather: partly cloudy sky, 84 degrees, and a strong south wind at 17 mph with 26 mph gusts. This made the ride to Walden tough and watching the PowerPod I could see the watts jump up when the gusts hit and I upped my pedaling to try to keep my speed. Yesterday I watched this video to learn a little more about power meters.
I need to learn more but this explained what FTP means. I looked at a website to calculate power zones and I need to change mine. A cyclist my age doesn’t have a 30 year old’s zones.
This is a picture of what my PowerPod setup looks like with the Barfly out front mount.
Staying west of Lake Houston I did not spot any love bugs today. They were not missed.
Link to Strava.com.
Golden Cheetah Ride Summary
Gallery of images: home weather starting, airport weather at the end, Strava extended statistics, this week summary and month to date. (click on the image to enlarge it)
