I waited and waited for the fog to lift and the temperature to go up a few more degrees before starting today’s bike ride at 12:38 PM. Because of the later start I changed my planned route for the “Forest Cove – Oakhurst – Valley Ranch” route. I was going to ride a longer route but I biked 30.4 miles on this one. I rode my Lynskey R300 bike without any sign of another flat tire like I had on Friday’s bike ride.

Other than the slow clearing fog the weather was on the cool side by my standards. The forecast called for a high of 83 but when I finished the ride at 2:55 PM it was not close to that. Weather conditions: start 68 (94% humidity, 65.8 dew point), fog/overcast, wind W 6 mph; finish 71 (87% humidity, 66.9 dew point), overcast with haze, wind NE 3 mph. Not fighting a double digit headwind was nice today. I did dress for cool temperatures with shorts, a long sleeve thermal jersey, and a windbreaker jacket. Towards the end of the bike ride I wanted to wear a regular long sleeve jersey but too late then.

Saturday I received a new video camera that I thought would be better in some ways than the GoPro cameras I have been using. Today I used it for the first time. I think the video was good and the audio was louder than the GoPro’s but with too much gain making it scratchy. I adjusted the audio some. This is the first video where the audio has been too loud. The new camera is the Drift Ghost XL with an external mic.

I had to get creative on attaching the external mic to the camera body. Generally it worked with the rubber tire tube piece keeping the mic from moving around too much when I pulled the rig from my jacket pocket to record. I need to improve that. The Drift offers a longer battery live, smaller size that GoPro with the microphone adapter, easy rotation of the lens for different angles. It doesn’t have as many video resolution options. The sound from the Drift once I get the right sensitivity setting appears to be good.

Without the strong winds from the previous rides I powered through the ride with a Strava segment personal record.