50 minutes of fast paced fun riding behind a fence with the last 10 minutes riding wild. The leader took the fence off with 10 minutes to go and said go wild but I used all of my “wild biking” keeping up with the herd. So I came in cooked but in the top 15% of Group D bikers.

Wanting to ride outside I checked the streets when I got the recycle bin at the end of the driveway. The puddles in the gutter and wet concrete from gutter to gutter meant the Canyon covered with grit and grime plus me too. After getting back inside I checked Zwift for rides coming up and chose this one. I rode with The Herd on several other rides so I knew a little about the pace. At the start I allowed no time to warm up getting my w/kg to 1.7 to stay with the group for drafting purposes. Overall 329 bikers rode and I came in at around 205 at the start but worked my way up to the front group even breaching the fence a few times but getting back before 60 seconds elapsed.

After that I stayed in the top 80 for awhile drifting back when a steep hill came around 8 miles into the ride. For a brief moment the graphic showed 28% for a sport on the climb but settled back to 12%. Some riders stopped as I rode by at 4 mph or so. This happened again about 10 miles later. Grueling climb on what I thought was going to be a fairly flat course. My wife and I attended the UCI World Championships in Richmond and I don’t remember anyone talking about a 28% climb on the course.

The ride live streamed on Twitch.TV/Texbiker.

More warm weather on Thursday. Maybe the fog and humidity will not keep the streets wet and I can go biking.