After finishing the Tour de Zwift today I took a real bike ride outside. Leaving home at 11:49 AM I decided to bike what I call the “Kingwood – FM1485 – Kingwood” route. This route goes to the north and then turns back to the south. Today I biked 31.28 miles putting the week at 119.06 miles and the month at 165.61 miles. These totals include Zwifting and road miles. My goals for February: 345 road miles and 100 Zwifting miles. The breakdown so far: Zwifting 28.2 miles and 137.4 road miles. I finished the ride at 2:19 PM.

I wanted to get this outdoors bike ride in to prepare for tomorrow’s Humble Lions Club bike ride and get more riding time on the Lynskey R300 road bike. My Canyon Endurace bike is at a LBS getting a tune-up after almost 15,000 of riding (new chain, new rear cassette, grease bearing, adjust shifting, etc.). Once it is back I will alternate between the Canyon and Lynskey for variety.

Weather during today’s bike ride: start 69 (32% humidity, 37.6 dew point), a few clouds, wind SW 8 mph. Finish 71 (34% humidity, 41.4 dew point), a few clouds, wind W 12 mph gusts 20 mph. While the sun dominated the sky the wind chill and strength tried to control me. I dressed to combat the chil with shorts, leg warmers, thermal long sleeve jersey, wind breaker jacket, and regular gloves. Fighting the wind on the return to Kingwood meant wind chill and pedaling through the 20 mph gusts. Whenever the road turned east the tailwind gave me time to recover for the next bout of headwind. Once I reached the Kingwood Drive u-turn the wind became less of a problem. I hope the wind lets up for tomorrow’s ride. I made my wardrobe choices for tomorrow.

Links to today’s bike ride: Strava and SportTracks