New Route, Almost Lost The GoPro, Strongest Wind of The Week
Today’s bike ride generated a new route name because it was a combination of roads that I ride but not in this configuration. It all began at 8:55 AM as I rode out on my Lynskey Helix bike. The new route name is “Community Drive – Cumberland – Oakhurst”. I’ve biked these roads in the opposite direction and as part of a longer route that goes to Gene Campbell Blvd. I rode into Cumberland for the first time in many years and not much changed during that time as far as Cumberland Blvd. but maybe the side streets changed. Watch the video to see some of Cumberland. No other rides to compare with today. I finished at 11:42 AM biking 34.25 miles. The week now totals 184.53 miles with 200 miles in reach with tomorrow’s ride. My July goal is 800 miles and I’m at 730.64 miles. Looks good for hitting that goal early next week. The chart below shows how the year to date miles compares for 2011 through 2022. I am ahead of 2021 and narrowed the difference to 67 miles for 2020.
After going through the Rock Creek and Northpark intersection I lost my GoPro camera by either knocking it out of the mount or not putting it back in correctly. fortunately I noticed, retraced my route and found it laying on the sidewalk.
Performance today was good from my legs though I didn’t get my overall average speed above 13.4 mph. The wind was calm at the start increasing to 10 mph with 17 mph gusts from the west. This work to my advantage once I made the turn around at Cumberland heading SE towards Porter. This is the most wind for a bike ride this week. According to AXS.SRAM.com ride report I used the 33×13 gears for 1:57:33 out of a total riding time of 2:44:15. Below the breakdown of the power and cadence for the ride.
Weather conditions: start 85 (humidity 77%, dew point 77), partly cloudy, wind N 0 mph; finish 94 (humidity 51%, dew point 73), mostly cloudy, wind W 10 mph gusts 17 mph.
Early in the ride I set the 3rd fastest time on Kris Spraggins Memorial Route (2:42), a Strava segment. I don’t think about segments before a ride, maybe I should.