Racing Towards November Goal

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In a race to get more miles towards my 360 mile November goal I rode north to FM 1485 and back south to Kingwood. Friday or Saturday weather below my outside riding threshold is predicted to arrive. Then I will shift to indoors riding Zwift which doesn’t count towards my goal. I started at 10:21 AM and was back home at 1:10 PM after biking 31.9 miles, upping my November total road miles to 66. This was the eleventh time I rode the Kingwood – FM 1485 – Kingwood route in 2022. Today I rode my Cervelo Caledonia bike and the distance was a little below the average for other 10 rides.

Weather conditions: start 78 (humidity 76%, dew point 70), mostly cloudy, wind E 6 mph; finish 82 (humidity 64%, dew point 69), mostly cloudy, wind SE 10 mph.

My legs are still recovering from the 7 days off the bike due to sickness. The 10 mph wind on the way back to Kingwood challenge them some and a few times my speed dropped to around 12 mph until I recovered after a few minutes.

My four rides in the last 90 days brought me the Strava Local Legend on Rock Creek Southbound. Now that the dogs seem to be gone I will probably ride this segment more often.

11-9-2022 YTD Bike Rides Kingwood-FM1485-Kingwood Route
11-9-2022 YTD Bike Rides Kingwood-FM1485-Kingwood Route
11-9-2022 Strava Ride Data Summary Kingwood-FM1485-Kingwood
11-9-2022 Strava Ride Data Summary Kingwood-FM1485-Kingwood

Missed 7 Days Of Riding

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It has been a week since I was on my bike. I was sick and today was the first day I felt well enough to get out and enjoy early summer weather during the fall. In addition to not feeling well my niece has been in the ICU at the same time. Not a good week. And Daylight Saving Time rolled back too. The trifecta of bad stuff.

I got the bike ride underway at 11:40 AM riding my Cervelo Caledonia bike. I chose my Atascocita – Walden – Huffman route for the 32nd time this year. I didn’t expect to ride fast and treated this as a recovery ride finishing at 2:32 PM after riding 34.09 miles. I thought not biking for a week that 2022 YTD miles would fall behind 2021 and 2020 but that didn’t happen.

Strava Year Progressions YTD Miles

The warm weather has a few more days until a cold front arrives on Friday sometime. My goal for November is 360 miles and I am way behind. There will be some Zwift rides if it is cold as the weather forecast predicts. Today’s weather: start 84 (humidity 56%, dew point 67), a few clouds, wind E 12 mph; finish 85 (humidity 54%, dew point 66), a few clouds, wind SE 17 mph. The headwind was strong getting to Huffman but helped me on the return to Kingwood.

I used the 35×13 gears for most of the ride even into the headwind.

11-8-2022 AXS SRAM Ride Report
11-8-2022 AXS SRAM Ride Report
11-8-2022 AXS SRAM Component Summary Gear Usage - Time
11-8-2022 AXS SRAM Component Summary Gear Usage – Time
11-8-2022 AXS SRAM Component Summary Gear Usage - Distance
11-8-2022 AXS SRAM Component Summary Gear Usage – Distance
11-8-2022 Strava Ride Data Summary Atascocita-Walden-Huffman
11-8-2022 Strava Ride Data Summary Atascocita-Walden-Huffman

Texas Bicycling News November 7th, 2022

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The Houston-Galveston Area Council is offering FREE bicycle safety classes this Saturday (11/13) from 9AM to noon at Lynn Gripon Park! Go to bit.ly/3OBBeDL for more info and to sign up. from bikehouston

Beginner’s guide to joining a bike racing team

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Thoughts on joining a bike racing team.

  1. Reasons to join a team
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  3. Different kinds of teams
  4. Pitfalls on bike racing teams

Texas State Criterium Championships • Oct 8 2022 • Corsicana, TX

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Categories » Men Cat 1 » Men Cat 2 » Men Cat 3 » Men Cat 4 » Men Cat 5 » Women Cat 1 » Women Cat 2 » Women Cat 3 » Women Cat 4 » Women Cat 5

Texas State Criterium Championships • Oct 9 2022 • Corsicana, TX

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Categories » Men CAT 1/2/3 » Men CAT 4/5 » Men JUNIOR 10-12 » Men JUNIOR 13-14 » Men JUNIOR 15-16 » Men JUNIOR 17-18 » Men MASTERS 40+ » Men MASTERS 50+ » Men MASTERS 60+ » Men MASTERS 70+ » Women JUNIOR 10-12 » Women JUNIOR 13-14 » Women JUNIOR 15-16 » Women JUNIOR 17-18 » Women MASTERS 40+ » Women MASTERS 50+ » Women MASTERS 60+ » Women WOMENS OPEN CAT 1/2/3/4

BellVelo Gravel & HTXCX Lights Underway!

Stuart Gardner, Program Director GHCF & Alkek Velodrome | shoutout.wix.com

We are well into the CX season with HTXCX Lights giving Houston riders a great opportunity to race locally. Additionally BellVelo #1 took place on Saturday and with 2 more races in the pipeline you can get your gravel fix!

Upcoming Events

CX Under the Lights #2 – 7pm Nov 9th

Rock n Road 100 – Nov 12th

CX Under the Lights #2 – 7pm Nov 16th

CX Under the Lights #2 – 7pm Nov 23rd

CX Under the Lights #2 – 7pm Nov 30th

CX Under the Lights #2 – 7pm Nov 7th

BellVelo Gravel Race #2 – 8:30 Dec 10th

CX Under the Lights #2 – 7pm Nov 14th

BellVelo Gravel Race #3 – 8:30 Jan 7th

Great weather for a ride to Zilker! from BikingATX

Thursday Night Social Ride – November 10th 2022 from socialcyclingaustin

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Texas Bicycling News November 6th, 2022

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Louisiana man bikes 800 miles across Texas

by: Abigail Jones | www.kxan.com

AUSTIN (KXAN) — Daniel Barousse is a full-time artist and furniture-maker living in Lafayette, Louisiana, so why did he spend nearly two weeks bicycling 800 miles across Texas? For him, it’s simple: to try to instill the same joy and passion that he feels in others.

His journey started with shoes when he was 11 years old. Barousse was at a new middle school, trying to find ways to fit in. The school required uniforms, so the only way to distinguish oneself was through shoes, and he noticed that the “cool kids” all wore Doc Martens. So he asked his parents for a pair for Christmas, but they said no.

Fast-forward about two months, Barousse bought his first skateboard with the …

Thanks to Biden, Houston gets bike lanes too – no one thanks him

by Ruetir | www.ruetir.com

Whether you ask at Emanuel bakery-restaurant, in the Huetamo hair salon, used car dealer Jorge Cantu or in the N&V launderette. Virtually every entrepreneur on Telephone Road, in Houston, reacts enthusiastically when he hears that his street will be completely renovated next year. Water drainage is being improved, the sidewalks are being refurbished and the many holes in the road surface are being closed. There will even be bike paths – unusual in the car-dominated Texas metropolis.

But if you already know that the renovation is imminent; no one knows who to thank for it: President Joe Biden and his Democrats. On Tuesday, they will try to maintain their wafer-thin majorities in both houses of Congress in the midterm elections. Among the legislative achievements they hope to benefit from are the Infrastructure and Jobs Act and the Inflation Reduction Act. …

First MTB race in Texas today! Outright whooped my ass, but we finished! from mountainbiking

El Paso bicyclist killed after hit-and-run crash

By Samuel Harasimowicz | kvia.com

UPDATE — Special Traffic Investigators continue to investigate after the death of bicyclist.

According to EPPD, 25- year-old Kayci Deaundre McCrory was traveling east in the far right lane of I-10 near Dallas on an electric bicycle.

McCrory was struck from behind around 3:30 a.m. Sunday morning.

Investigators say the driver of Black F-150 fled the scene, but the vehicle received front-end damage.

Police said moments later a second vehicle was planning on exiting the freeway when he struck the bicyclist who was lying on the ground.

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