I surprised myself with today’s start time for the bike ride. I was out the door and Cervelo Caledonia wheels rolling at 8:56 AM. And that was after eating breakfast, watching the finishes of the Tour of Turkey and Tour du Jura and all but the last 11k of the Paris-Roubaix Femmes (I finished this one after my bike Ride). I don’t know what got into me. I didn’t have to wait on the temperature to warm up for a change which probably helped the most. I even finished at 11:44 AM, before some of my bike rides even start.

To make up for not biking outdoors yesterday I picked a longer distance route for today’s ride than usual, the “Kingwood to Ramsey Road – Huffman”. Today’s ride went 37.9 miles, a little less than the previous ride this year on the route on March 19th. With today’s ride my week totals 194.94 miles. If the weather holds I should bike enough miles tomorrow, Easter Sunday, for a 200+ mile week. I only need 119 road miles to reach my 650 road mile goal for April. That one looks in reach as well. Someday I will ride Ramsey Road north and the county roads to FM 1960. I drove on those roads a few years ago and the surface wasn’t very good. Plus they looked ripe for loose dogs.

Not much thinking went into selecting the kit for the ride: shorts, long sleeve T-shirt, and a Texbiker.net short sleeve jersey. I encountered some light mist pockets during the ride but not for long. Most of those were south of FM 1960. Weather at the start and finish: start 74 (humidity 99%, dew point 74), mostly cloudy, wind S 7 mph; finish 77 (humidity 90%, dew point 74), overcast, wind S 6 mph. For a change the wind stayed below 10 mph, more like summer. The overcast sky kept the sun at bay but I still wore sunscreen.

Checking the AXS.SRAM.com ride activity report there were 35 RD shifts. Two of those involved me moving the left paddle instead of the right paddle. The ride took a total time of 2:45:59, with 1:32:35 in the 35×13 gears and 52:41 in the 35×15. I think the light wind allowed me to stay in the 35×13 when I would’ve shifted to the 35×15. My legs felt good and powered through a few uphills into the wind.

I moved the GoPro mount to the left of the Bolt computer and in front of the handle bar. I also added the wind muff to the mic to cut down on the wind noise. I had to adjust my removal and reattaching of the GoPro with it on the left side. I think the wind muff helped but I need a windy day to see how it does then. The new mount removed the Bolt computer form the shot.