Beautiful fall weather made the bike ride super today on the “Atascocita – Walden – Huffman” route. Schools were out and the traffic was light. I saw several other bicyclists with the first one in Kingwood on Cedar Knoll Drive. The others were scattered along the route. Clear blue sky, 85 degrees (at home) and a N 6 mph breeze were stunning. Since I started at 12:29 the chilly overnight temperature (51 degrees at 8:18) had time to warm up.
Nothing out of the ordinary along the route. When I approached Huffman on FM2100 from the south I heard the train horn blowing from the west and as I got near the tracks the crossing arms came down and the long freight train zoomed by. In my youth I liked model trains and now I like to watch the various types of railcars in trains; the manufacturer codes and the specialty cars are interesting. When I worked in Dallas before moving to Houston my employer was Trinity Industries which make many types of railcars.
By the time the train finished it was about 2:00 as I rolled into the Huffman Chevron for a break. I was 20.7 miles into what turned out to be a 33.02 mile long ride. At first when I sat in the shade it was a little cool as my sweat dried from the breeze but after a few minutes my jersey dried out and I was comfortable. I did not buy any Powerade so I drank water with the two packages of snack crackers. The Elemnt screen when I arrived and the weather while I rested.
Since school was out I didn’t need to hurry to miss the traffic but I only stayed about 20 minutes before resuming the ride. With the north breeze riding west on FM1960 was not that hard and I improved my overall average speed to 14.8 mph. The FM1960 resurfacing spread to the west side of Lake Houston at Atascocita Shores Drive. So far the middle turn lane is the only section ground down. Earlier when I crossed over FM1960 at Pine Hurst Trail I noticed the center lane was rough.
I made my way to the ride finish and stopped the Elemnt at 3:11.
Last Saturday I had a problem with the Elemnt computer not syncing the whole ride data with my phone and the two websites I connect to. I messed around and got the Elemnt back to a factory reset. The only thing that did was erase all of the rides from the computer and then my phone. Fortunately I always copy the ride data from the Elemnt to my desktop computer. I uploaded the data to RideWithGPS.com and Strava.com as well as the desktop version of SportTracks. Today I called Wahoo Fitness and talked to technical support. After that I know more about how the syncing works and today’s ride recorded and synced correctly. Maybe this was a one time event.
More great weather on tap tomorrow and bike riding too.
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