December warm weather continued for today’s bike ride with the temperature in the mid 70’s under a mostly cloudy sky. Wind ranged from 9 mph at the 12:01 PM start to 10 mph when I finished at 2:48 PM. Riding to the north the SE wind didn’t pose a problem until I made the turn back to the south. The route choice for today was “New Caney – Tavola – Valley Ranch”. I rode my Lynskey R300 bike for 35.14 miles upping my December road mile total to 305.8 miles.

In the continuing search for good audio in my ride video I tried a different setup with the new Saramonic mic. I moved the GoPro Hero 7 Black below my Bolt computer and positioned the mic on the handlebar stem. Using a strip of Velcro to hold the mic in place I think the audio today was some of the best considering the wind and traffic noise. This is what the setup looked like.

The dead cat muff absorbs a lot of the background noise.

Below is the bike ride summary data from the Golden Cheetah program. My power output hold steady compared to recent rides. 47% of the ride time power fell in zones 1 and 2 leaving 53%% of the ride time in zones 3 through 7. Zones 6 and 7 dropped to 10% of the ride time. Strava still characterized the ride as harder than my usual efforts. Not many segments on this route.