Before starting today’s bike ride I worked on removing some invasive plants in the flower beds around my house. The temperature was cooler than earlier in the week and I’ve been putting this off for several months. With that out of the way I got ready for the bike ride. Rolling out of the driveway at 9:56 AM wasn’t the latest start time this week but I wondered if this might expose me to the rain the forecast mentioned. I rode my Cervelo Caledonia bike on the “Community Drive – Cumberland – Oakhurst” route for 34.57 miles finishing at 12:36 PM and no rain. In fact the sky looked like rain was nowhere to be seen. This was the 5th ride on this route this year and the mileage about average. My overall average speed was the highest of all the other rides. I was concerned about the miles at the beginning so I went on some streets to add distance. It turned out those streets just got me to the average length. Good thing I didn’t leave them out.

I rode through Elm Grove Village, Sherwood Trails Village, Woodridge Forest on the way to US59/I-69. On E Knox St. at one of the RV parks a Montgomery County Hospital District ambulance was on the side of the street along with 2 Montgomery County Sheriff vehicles. Not sure what happened.

After riding the HH100 I noticed my seat bag had a hole in it. I ordered a replacement and today was the first ride with the new seat bag, a Lezyne using a bracket that attaches to the seat rails. It moved it back and up improving the visibility of the taillight.

Weather conditions: start 79 (humidity 87%, dew point 75), mostly cloudy, wind N 4 mph; finish 89 (humidity 66%, dew point 76), mostly cloudy, wind calm.

Link to my AXS.SRAM ride report.