Today was a good solution for rain and a bike ride. Before sunrise my home weather station recorded .68″ of rain and by the time I started the bike ride at 8:17 AM the streets dried enough it was hard to tell it rained. The short ride on the greenbelt trail was wet but after that dry streets. I rode my Cervelo Caledonia bike on the typical Saturday route “Atascocita – Huffman – Walden” in hopes of seeing other cyclists which I did once I reached the causeway over Lake Houston on FM 1960. You can see them in the video.

I needed to ride 19 miles to reach 200+ miles for the week. I biked 33.37 miles putting the week’s total at 214.7 miles with one more day to go. This was the 12th time biking this route this year. All but one has been on my Cervelo Caledonia bike. The average speed today was below the typical average speed.

With the rain the humidity at the start was 99% making it muggy. That did go down by the time I finished at 10:56 AM but my bike cloths were soaked from sweat. The headwind was the worst riding west over Lake Houston with nothing to get in its way. My legs worked hard but my speed dropped to 11 mph sometimes on the causeway. The cyclist who was in front of me pulled away as we crossed the lake. I didn’t realize until I got home and looked at the weather that wind gusts were 18 mph, probably explaining why my legs had a hard time over the lake. Weather overview: start 79 (humidity 99%, dew point 78), partly cloudy, wind S 7 mph; finish 89 (humidity 64%, dew point 75), mostly cloudy, wind SW 8 gusts 18 mph. At FM 1960 and Atascocita Shores Drive the road construction was a big mud pit. Glad I didn’t need to ride through it.

According to the AXS.SRAM.com ride report the total moving time was 2:34:26. Of that time I used the 35×13 gears 1:40:40 or 23.1 miles. I shifted the RD 19 times. Maybe I should’ve changed to the 35×15 gears crossing the lake going west into the headwind.