Past hump day and onto Thursday. Getting dressed for today’s bike ride I decided to wear a new pair of shorts which meant another pair were retired, trying to keep my cycling wardrobe manageable and not expanding beyond the available space. I thought about adding a new jersey but didn’t. Maybe a new jersey on the next bike ride.

With that out of the way I rolled my Cervelo Caledonia bike through the backyard gate onto the driveway and headed away on the ride at 9 AM. Yesterday evening my home weather station recorded 3.54″ of badly needed rain which impacted the weather for the ride. For many weeks the temperature at the start has been around 86 degrees but today it was a nice 77 but the humidity was 99%. The temperature at the finish was below the recent levels at 85, pleasant compared to the typical 94. The humidity was better at 71%, not as muggy as the start. Wind continued the single digit speeds lately from the north at 7 mph.

The “Atascocita – Walden – Huffman” route goes south and then east over Lake Houston. I added some streets to be sure I rode at least 34 miles to raise the week’s total to 150 and the extra streets did the trick with the ride covering 35.45 miles pushing the week total to 151.76 miles. August miles are 378.92 with an 800 mile goal. In Bear Branch Village Kingwood the street I thought would loop back to Tree Lane turned into a no outlet sending me back to Tree Lane. In Kings Forest the extra streets were Rocky Woods, Royal Trail Drive, and Laurel Garden Drive. Later in Walden I rode on Relay Road and Hikers Trail Drive which are not usually part of the route. When I reached FM 2100 I rode south to Spanish Cove Drive on the recently finished road to add to the distance. 20 times I bike this route in 2022 and the distances vary between 33 to 35 miles putting today’s ride in the upper part.

Another cyclist was out and passed me going the opposite direction on Old Atascocita Road.

Cadence data interests me and today I turned the pedals 7724 times. Below detailed cadence data. Combining this data and the AXS.SRAM ride report data I used the 35×13 gears 1:44:25 during the total moving time of 2:37:33.

Another chart I look at sometimes is generated by Stravini using the my Strava data showing my fitness trend. If I’m reading the chart correctly it looks like I am in the optimal part of the chart.