New Route Title, Same Roads. Waited For Some Heat
Not the usual early start for the Saturday bike ride because I waited for the temperature to climb from 51 degrees when I woke up. During the wait I watched the prologue of the Giro d’Itlia and stage 5 of the Binck Bank Tour. Plenty of bike racing to inspire me. The temperature warmed up enough to start the bike ride at 10:20 AM. My Canyon Endurace and I rolled off to start on the “Atasccocita – FM 2100 – Walden” route. A new label but a route I biked 5 times including today in 2020. The reason for the new label, the construction crew on FM 2100 north of Old Atascocita Road added more shoulder barriers but not allowing enough space for me to ride on the shoulder. I will use this route until the construction allows a better route. I will miss Huffman. A summary of this year’s rides on today’s route.
With a new label the mileage wasn’t that different coming in at 32.66 miles. Those miles pushed my week to 204.77 miles getting me back at that level after a week below 200 miles. My push toward my month’s goal continues at a good pace getting ahead by 48.1 miles after 3 days.
One of the things I look forward to on Saturday bike rides are the other cyclists I see on this route. With my late start I wondered if I would miss them. Not to worry, I saw about a dozen but only got 3 in the video. The others surprised me when I couldn’t get the GoPro out of my packet quick enough to record them. A side note, the sock wind muff did a good job minimizing the wind noise.
In 2019 on the first Saturday in October I rode the Polk County Spirit Ride in Livingston, TX. Sadly it did not happen this year, probably because of the COVID-19 virus though their website did not say anything.
To go along with the new route label I set a personal record for the Strava segment “Cracks to Tracks”.
Powerful legs today as I built my average speed to 14.4 mph probably helped by the light wind and wanting to see other cyclists. My average power came in at 134 watts, more than my usual amount. The Strava bike ride summary.
Ride data as Golden Cheetah saw it.
