The last time I rode outside was November 25th, the day before Thanksgiving. Today I waited for the temperature to move above 60 degrees before beginning the ride at 12:24 PM. My Canyon Endurace bike almost forgot what is was to go outside. I bundled up with shorts, leg warmers, a wicking t-shirt, long sleeve thermal jersey, windbreaker jacket, and full finger gloves. I don’t care for chilly weather. My road mileage goal for December is 150 miles. The reason it is so low is the weather. To offset that I ride in Zwift when it is too cold to ride outside.

Today’s ride video is a short one. I used my handheld GoPro Hero 7 Silver for all of the clips. I wondered if I could press the record button on the Hero 7 Black with my gloves on. The wind blew the dead cat mic muff off the Comica mic but I quickly stopped and picked it up. I need to find a better way to keep it on the mic.

I chose the “Atascocita – Walden – E. Lake Houston Parkway” route for today’s ride. With a late start I didn’t want to go farther and risk the temperature dropping. I biked 28.12 miles, almost catching me up on the miles I was short to reach my goal so far, only 5.76 miles behind. Year to date I moved to 8,904 miles. I have never biked this many miles in a year. If I reach my road goal and add more Zwift miles I will hit 9,000+ miles.

With about 8 miles left in the ride I stopped to answer a text message and took this shot. The blue sky is terrific.

My power output is much better on the road than in Zwift. Today my power output in zones 3 to 7 totaled 54% of the ride time. 16% was in zones 6 and 7. Strava said this ride was harder than my usual efforts to reinforce the difference. Below is the Golden Cheetah summary of the bike ride.

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My Canyon Endurace now has 20,053 miles, accumulated since February 2018 when it arrived.