After riding indoors since Tuesday today I broke out of hibernation and hit the road. Starting later at 12:53 PM after church I chose the “Oakhurst – Valley Ranch” route biking 28.01 miles. The week’s total came in at 166.21 miles including 50.14 miles on the road and the rest virtual riding on Zwift and Rouvy. November stands at 418.71 miles, only 42 miles short of my goal for the month.

The weather wasn’t as warm as I prefer (80+) so I wore a winter combination of shorts, leg warmers, heavy long sleeve thermal jersey, windbreaker jacket, and full finger gloves. For the first couple of miles I was a little chilled but once the exercise got my body heating up I was comfortable for the rest of the ride. Weather during the bike ride: start 64 (49% hunidity, 44.6 dew point), mostly cloudy, wind calm. Finish 67 (58% humidity, 51.4 dew point), mostly cloudy, wind W 7 mph. Monday should warmup a few degrees and I plan on riding out there.

Last week I lost my NiteRider Sentinel 250 taillight probably due to my not clipping it into the bracket completely. I ordered a replacement and installed it for today’s ride. To help ward off losing another $50+ light I added a Velcro strip around the clip. This is what it looks like.

Where the Velcro strip wraps around the bracket I think will keep it from moving up and disconnecting from the bracket. So far on the first ride it worked plus I tugged on the light to verify the clip engaged.

My indoor riding may be paying off. During today’s ride I improved my overall average speed to 14.0 mph even when the light wind became a headwind briefly.

Some clips during the ride.

Relive ‘Oakhurst – Valley Ranch’