The plan called for biking on the roads around Kingwood but on the way home from church the clouds looked threatening. Once I got home I decided to change the chainrings on my Lynskey Helix bike. I went out to the garage to get the ratchet wrench and the Torx bits. I didn’t think it would take very long but as I started I heard rain hitting the ground and finished installing the 48×35 chainrings. So much for my bike ride outside. It rained enough to get the streets wet and I changed to looking for a Zwift event. I didn’t find any for the distance and time I needed to start so I created my own event in the Makuri Islands on the Wandering Flats route. This is the second Zwift ride this week. Very unusual for this time of the year. A week ago I thought about canceling Zwift since I had not used it since April 15th.

The 16.2 mile distance fit my time window. I checked SportTracks to see if I rode this route before and found the only other time was December 7th, 2021. I set up the live stream on YouTube and go ready. I tried to do a spin down for my Wahoo Kickr Snap smart trainer but the Wahoo Utility app couldn’t connect. I thought having the Zwift Companion app open probably was why the Wahoo app didn’t connect. After the ride I was able to connect the Wahoo Utility app and do the spin down. Without the spin down the smart trainer wasn’t adjusting to the climbs properly. My speed would go down but the resistance didn’t increase. I think the spin down fixed that.

There were not many other Zwifters on the course.

With the help of Zwift I rode each day this week. I rode 200+ miles to keep my consecutive weeks streak alive.

Strava recorded a 2nd fastest time on Wandering Flats (58:40), considering I’ve only rode the route twice that is fitting.