After Zwifting each day since January 20th today the weather warmed up enough for me to ride outside. Wheels down at 2:00 PM as I rode on the Lynskey R300 bike. I debated about which route to ride and ended up on the “Atascocita – Walden – Huffman”. With the late start I didn’t expect to see any other cyclists and I didn’t. I am 75 miles short of my 300 road mile goal for January but today’s 34.17 miles got me closer. While the weather today was good tomorrow rain will probably keep me inside Zwifting. That means I fall short of the goal. I have rode 314 Zwift miles so far. While it is early 2022 this was the second ride on this route.

Today’s ride was faster and slightly longer.

Weather conditions: start 68 (humidity 34%, dew point 39), a few clouds, wind W 10 mph; finish 67 (humidity 33%, dew point 37), a few clouds, wind SW 8 mph. It’s good that I wore leg warmers because the wind was chilly in the shade and riding over Lake Houston. I also wore a long sleeve jersey (not thermal) and a windbreaker jacket. I was comfortable even riding into the headwind. The sunshine helped too.

I was surprised to see two top results in Strava because I ride this route frequently. Maybe the cool weather upped my energy.