With yesterday’s rain and riding Zwift I decided to stretch today’s route a couple of miles to make up for some of the miles missed. Rolling away at 8:05 AM under mostly cloudy skies with 99% humidity on my Cervelo Caledonia bike the route was “Atascocita – Huffman – Walden”. As usual I hoped to see some other cyclists during the bike ride. At the start of the ride I was at 174 miles for the week and by stretching today’s bike ride to 35.69 miles the week improved to 210.42 miles. Over all August miles is up to 654.3 and 631.6 road miles with a goal of 800 road miles for the month. This route averages a little over 33 miles for the 18 rides on it in 2022. I stretched the route by adding 2 street loops in Bear Branch Village and riding south to Spanish Cove Drive on FM 2100 before turning north to Huffman. I finished the bike ride at 10:58 AM.

High humidity stayed around for the whole bike ride compared to earlier in the week when it would drop to below 60% at the end of the bike ride. Today whenever I stopped sweat dripped onto the pavement and the last 5 miles my gloves were so wet I stuck my fingers out to couch the wind to dry them out some. At the end sweat ran down my legs. When I stopped at Pinehurst Trail Drive and FM 1960 another cyclist pulled up beside me and we talked about how the humidity promoted extreme sweating. I saw other cyclists as I hoped for and most of them are in the video or pointed out. Weather summary: start 75 (humidity 99%, dew point 74), mostly cloudy, wind N 0 mph;finish 86 (humidity 81%, dew point 80), mostly cloudy, wind S 7 mph. Notice the high dew point which contributed to the muggy ride. It has been many weeks since the temprature at the end of a ride has been below 90.

For the last several rides on the Cervelo Caledonia the chain made sounds calling for attention. On Thursday I received the Silca Super Secret Chain lube and applied it. On today’s bike ride the chain spun silently and smoothly. A good supplement between waxing the chain.

Looking at the AXS.SRAM.com ride report data I learned that I used the 35×13 gears for 1:40:17 (24.3 miles) of the total moving time of 2:36:09 and made 19 RD shifts. The low shift count reflects the light wind and lack of terrain changes.

I circled in blue the areas that I stretched the route.