After not biking on Saturday due to the threat of rain I got back on the bike today after church. Starting the ride at 12:28 PM I headed out on what I label the “Oakhurst – Valley Ranch” route. I altered the route slightly to add a couple of miles to it and rode 29.13 miles. This put the week at 196.04 miles (I should’ve rode 5 miles yesterday to get over 200) and the month at 352.08 miles, 59% of my goal for April.

Weather today was different from Saturday. Wind and blue sky greeted me as I rode the route. Weather during the ride: start 65 (48% humidity), fair, wind NW 14 mph gusts 25 mph. Finish 70 (40% humidity), fair, wind NW 20 mph. With the cool temperature at the start I chose to bundle up some with shorts, leg warmers, long sleeve thermal jersey, wind jacket, and regular gloves. I figured by the time I finished the temperature would get close to the forecasted high of 72. The strong wind challenged me whenever I rode W to NW and I was thankful for the wind jacket.

Once I got in Valley Ranch I knew the headwind would end as soon as I turned to the east and then south along I-69/US59. Then I picked up my speed and boosted my average speed to 14.2 mph after battling the wind. My legs were fresh from the day off and powered me along to finish the ride at 2:43 PM.

Yesterday I did some maintenance on the Canyon waxing the chain and cleaning the bike. I checked the tires and found out the front tire has 6417 miles and the rear 6800 miles. After today’s ride the Canyon Endurace CF SLX has 8901 miles.

Monday the temperature should get close to 80 and the wind let up some with sunny sky. Sounds like perfect riding weather.

2019 is barely ahead of 2016, 99 miles ahead of 2018, and behind 2017 by 71 miles.