Lots of sun to start March bike rides. It was a little cooler than I prefer and I delayed the start until 12:25 PM to get a couple more degrees of warmth. Riding my Cervelo Caledonia around Kingwood, over to the US59 northbound frontage road and back through Brooklyn Trails was a great start towards my 680 road mile goal for March. As I made my way into Woodridge Forest I heard a bunch of sirens and rounding a corner a big plume of smoke rose in the southern sky. It slowly thinned out. When I crossed over Northpark Drive looking west the traffic was stopped around Russell Palmer Drive with fire equipment blocking the street. The smoke was almost gone. At the start I guessed the ride would be 20 miles long and turned out to be 20.34 miles. I set a new Strava PR on Kris Spraggins Memorial Route (2:03). Weather: Start 67 degrees, humidity 60%, dew point 52.7, mostly cloudy, wind SE 4 mph; Finish 72 degrees, humidity 54%, dew point 54.7, partly cloudy, wind SW 4 mph.

Lately the audio on the ride videos has been bad. I looked at some potential causes and narrowed it to the cable connecting the wireless Rode mic to the GoPro camera media mod. I replaced the cable for today’s ride and the audio is back to normal. The damaged cable connector photos below. I think the cable damage happened during a ride when I dropped the GoPro.