No distractions to keep me from starting today’s bike ride before 8 AM. I rode my Cervelo Caledonia onto the street, pressed the start button on the Bolt computer at 7:54 AM and off we went riding my “Atascocita – Huffman – Walden” route. With the early start (for me at least) I finished at 10: 31 AM before it had time to get really hot. It’ll do that later in the afternoon. I like the early start on Saturday so that I can see other cyclists. I saw several today (some are in the video) but I wonder if the road construction on FM 1960 at Atascocita Shores has caused some to ride someplace else. It enters my thoughts and I don’t ride through the work zone as often. I did see a way to avoid riding in the main west bound lanes approaching Atascocita Shores. There is space between the barriers for both directions that goes into the left turn lane at the stop light. I’ll try that the next ride.

I accomplished two goals with the 34.12 miles on today’s bike ride: a 211 mile week and 828 miles for the month, surpassing my 800 mile goal. This was the 11th ride on this route in 2022. Ten of them have been on my Cervelo Caledonia bike. Tomorrow’s bike ride will add some miles to both of those goals. To add a little distance to the ride circling Town Center Park which I don’t usually do resulted in a PR on NASCAR (51s) according to Strava. But I lost the local legend on another segment that I don’t ride very often in Kings Forest.

Thankfully the humidity dropped as the ride progressed and the dew point held steady helping me not feel too hot. The wind was from the SW at 8 mph making the ride back across Lake Houston harder that riding east. Weather conditions: start 76 (humidity 97%, dew point 75), partly cloudy, wind N 0 mph; finish 88 (humidity 61%, dew point 73), mostly cloudy, wind SW 8 mph.

I only made 15 RD shifts according to the AXS.SRAM.com ride report. I rode 1:46:09 using the 35×13 gear (24.3 miles). Total moving time was 2:34:07.