No need to wait for the temperature to warm up before today’s bike ride but I did watch stage 3 of the Tour de Romandie. The scenery was beautiful but I don’t know what all of the yellow plants are. The scenery is good here too. I chose my “Kingwood – FM1485 – Kingwood” route heading north and then back to the south. I rode my Cervelo Caledonia bike which needs the chain lubed. I will wax it this afternoon. I biked this route 5 times so far in 2022. Today was the shortest distance biking 31.43 miles (Strava’s calculation). This pushed my week to 180.43 miles (or 180.44 in SportTracks), well within reach of hitting 200+ for the week with tomorrow’s bike ride. April biking totals 981.65 miles.

Starting the bike ride at 11:05 AM I headed north along US59/I-69 enjoying some help from the tailwind. But the headwind on the way back south felt strong and I thought my legs were tired but when I got home at 1:44 PM and checked the weather I saw the wind increased big time and I didn’t think my legs did that bad. Weather conditions: start 79 (humidity 71%, dew point 69), mostly cloudy, wind S 12 mph; finish 82 (humidity 65%, dew point 69), mostly cloudy, wind S 20 mph gusts 25 mph. I pedaled hard riding south but just couldn’t overcome the headwind.

I rode with somewhat bare arms today to get some sun on them. Watch the video to find out about the cut off sock.

Looking at the AXS.SRAM.com ride report confirmed my effort into the wind. The total riding time was 2:22:48 and I used the 35×15 gear for 1:22:50 of that. I used the 35×13 gears 39:19, probably riding to FM 1485. Only 27 RD shifts which makes sense with so much riding time in the 35×15 gears. I rode 16.9 miles in the 35×15 and 10.5 miles in the 35×13 gearing.