Today’s bike ride sported two new things: the Primal Cosmic Cycle ’19 jersey and Tifoso Shout Out prescription cycling glasses. Along with those the sunny 80 degrees felt great while I rode the Cervelo Caledonia on the “New Caney – Gene Campbell Blvd.” route. Wheels down and rolling at 11:54 AM. The wind let up today but it still felt like the headwind was stronger than the weather report numbers. I biked 37.48 miles which improved the week’s total to 162.46 miles, putting a 200 mile week in reach with two biking days left. For the month I am up to 728.13 miles, the highest month since October 2021. Road miles at 583 are getting close to my 650 mile goal.
This was my second ride on this route in 2022. The previous ride was on January 18th. Today’s bike ride was slightly shorter by .6 of a mile but the average speed was 14.2 mph versus 13.6 in January. Riding time was 10 minutes shorter today at 2:38:52. My legs felt good. Looking at AXS.SRAM.com I learned I spent the most time in the 35×13 gear combination followed by the 35×15 gears. 47 RD shifts, only one shift where I used the left brake lever trying to shift to a bigger rear gear.
Weather conditions are getting closer to my preferred zone. Start 77 (humidity 31%, dew point 44), fair, wind NW 5 mph; finish 81 (humidity 17%, dew point 32), clear, wind N 0.
The Tifoso Shout Out glasses arrived this morning so I thought why use them during the bike ride. The prescription is not what I thought it would be but better than plain sunglasses. What I wanted was to be able to see the numbers on the Bolt computer as clear as with my regular prescription glasses. I used the same prescription and specified single vision which I think my regular glasses are. Other than the numbers on the computer all the rest was nice and crisp. I bought them from tifosioptics.com.
I earned two local legends in Strava: Local Legend on South Sprint to PHS and Local Legend on Shell – Stripes Cruise. I was riding at a strong pace on that section of FM 1314.
