Not quite as early of a start as last Saturday at the HH100 in Wichita Falls but I was on my Cervelo Caledonia bike and riding at 8:23 AM. Maybe I could’ve start a little earlier but I hoped it was early enough to see other cyclists. I saw quite a few bikers starting on Atascocita Shores Drive, on the causeway over Lake Houston, Fairlake Lane, and Old Atascocita road before making the u-turn to head back to Kingwood. I rode my usual Saturday route, Atascocita – Huffman – Walden, covering 33.21 miles, about the average distance for the 19 rides so far in 2022. I finished at 10:55 AM.

Starting this early meant the humidity was still high from the overnight cooling. It felt cool for awhile but once I started sweating it didn’t take long to soak my jersey and other clothing. The temperature was 76 at the start and 87 when I finished. Because it was was below 80 I decided to use a waterbottle instead of my CamelBak for hydration. I had enough water without stopping and it was still cool when I got come. The Polar bottle has enough insulation when it is less than 90 and the ride doesn’t last too long. Weather summary: start 76 (humidity 97%, dew point 75), mostly cloudy, wind N 5 mph; finish 87 (humidity 74%, dew point 78), mostly cloudy, wind calm.

About 2 weeks ago I dropped my GoPro camera and cracked the lens cover. It didn’t affect the video except when I shot video looking into the sun a blur would be in the lower right corner. Yesterday I received the new lens cover and the blur is gone. To replace the cover you twist the cover right or left 90 degrees. I didn’t know that and pried it off. That’s when I discovered the twist was the correct way.

It was a busy ride shifting the Rival eTap gears with 33 RD shifts according to the AXS.SRAM ride report. Changing gears is easy and quick compared to my mechanical gearing on my Canyon Endurace bike. I rode the 35×13 gears 1:32:43 out of a total moving time of 2:27:55. That was 22.1 miles.