A change of location and pace for today’s bike ride after yesterday’s Galveston ride. The start time wasn’t as late as yesterday since I didn’t have to drive to the starting location but not as early as I should’ve began. After the battery issues with the Cervelo bike I switched to my Lynskey Helix bike and rode out at 10:19 AM after watching the stage 6 finish of the Critérium du Dauphiné and eating breakfast.

The route was Kingwood – FM1485 – Kingwood going north but I changed a few streets for some variety and increased the distance about a mile over the average for the route to 34.08 miles. I lowered the pace slightly for recovery purposes avoiding most of the Strava starred segments. I did up the the speed a little on Valley Ranch Parkway for the Texan / 99 segment but not enough to challenge my personal record. Some of the route differences: after 8/10’s of a mile through Sherwood Trails Village, longer loop through Brooklyn Trails, Community Drive to Loop 494, Auburn Trails, and Bentwood Oaks Drive to rock Creek Drive. The 34.08 miles pushed the total for June to 272.18. This gives me some breathing room with a day ahead of the pace of 27 miles per day at 10.1 days versus being the 9th day of June. Can’t fall back now. I’m averaging 30.22 miles per day versus the 27 per day to reach 800 miles for June.

I took a short break under the Texas 99 overpass at Valley Ranch Parkway and took these photos.

There is still a problem with the Bolt computer displaying power meter watts but it wasn’t compounded with sensor battery issues this time. A re-start revived the display and the ride went on. This is a nagging problem. Hopefully Wahoo fixes it soon.

Weather for the ride: Start 84 degrees, 72% humidity, 74 dew point, a few clouds, wind NW 6 mph; Finish 89 degrees, 58% humidity, 72.1 dew point, a few clouds, wind SE 4 mph.