I managed to start today’s bike ride just before 9 AM hustling out the door and down the driveway pressing the Bolt computer start button at 8:58 AM. Maybe not filling my CamelBak and taking a water bottle made the difference. I was on the route that I ride most often, Atascocita – Walden – Huffman, guessing I would ride 33 to 34 miles but I stretched it to 35.38 miles. I added riding south on FM 2100 to Spanish Cove Drive plus a couple of side streets in Bear Branch Village Kingwood. This was number 25 riding the route this year.

With the Fall Equinox arriving Thursday you would think the weather would be fall like but summer will not let go. Weather during the ride: start 80 ( humidity 84%, dew point 74), mostly clear, wind NE 3 mph; finish 88 (humidity 60%, dew point 73), partly cloudy, wind N 4 mph. I could feel a little fall weather at the start but by the time I finished at 11:43 AM that was gone.

Several cyclists crossed my path today. The first was on Chanay Street at Woodland Hills Drive. At Atascocita Shores Drive and FM 1960 Pete turned left from FM 1960 as I waited for the traffic light to change. I learned his name when he pulled up beside me as I waited and we talked for several minutes. Later at the church on Fairlake Lane three vehicles were in the parking lot with bike racks but their cyclists were out on the road.

The AXS.SRAM.com ride report recorded 15 RD changes but I should’ve mad more. Several times I needed to shift from the 35×13 to 35×15 gears when I approached an intersection but didn’t. That made for slow starts. Gears usage shows 1:41:45 in 35×13 and just 32:54 in the 35×15.

I haven’t looked at the cadence chart in awhile. When I look at it I see how many times I turn the crankset and the power curve from that. I didn’t realize I made 8,313 crank revolutions. Who would think of averaging 6.85 meters per crank revolution. Is that good or not?