Texas Biking Action October 18th 2021

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Stuart Gardner Program Director | www.alkekvelodrome.com

Season Finale! Results

U12 Tundercats! We had 6 of our Thundercats group out and all raced hard but it was Amelia Brighty who took the overall win. 2nd place was closely fought between Ryan Kegel, Abigail Mayces and Josh Western who were only separated by 1pt! Isla and Evan Bates both did great too in their first race night!

Junior Team Races Lucas Brighty and Seth Holland were the top pair in this event but racing was close as always!

Senior Team Events John and Tracy took the scratch win on the back of a well executed sprint while Alex and Sinead took the points race thanks to solid team work. Both earning some Karbach!

Madison Flying Lap Gabi St Clair managed to launch Tegan Morgan round the track making sure Seth & Lucas didn’t get everything their own way all night to record the fastest junior time while Pam and Tracy set the women’s mark. It was Alex and Sinead who edged out Paul & TJ in the open event in a close race with the top 3 teams being separated by only 0.34s.

Madison Championships Pamela and Paige set the pace in the junior and women’s omnium taking the women’s title with Seth and Lucas winning the junior boys championship and Tegan and Gabi taking the junior girls title.

In the open event John and Said were able to obliterate the field in a dominant display to be crowned champions. Alex and Sinead capped a very successful night for them with a silver and Rob and Edgar used their experience to take bronze. Coach Carl and Christian put in a solid ride to finish 4th ahead of Paul & TJ and junior pair Sebastian and Tad.

Massive kudos to everyone who did the madison races, they take a lot of practice and every team did a great job. A huge thanks to Carl also for the madison clincs!

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Waited Until 48 Became 73 Since I’m A Wimp

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The cool overnight temperatures continued with a chilly 48 degrees when I got out of bed this morning. It took several hours after that to warm up to the mid 70’s slowing the start of the bike ride to 11:38 AM. I am a temperature wimp. To offset the chill I wore a long sleeve jersey under a short sleeve jersey. Riding in the shade remind me of the chill from overnight. The beautiful blue sky and ample sunshine helped to warm me as well as pedaling the Canyon Endurace bike. The “Kingwood – SH 242 Kingwood” route took me north and then back to the south covering 36.45 miles. This brought me within 92 miles of reaching my 625 mile goal for October. If the weather holds to the forecast I should reach that goal this week. Over the course of 2021 I biked this route 9 times. The distance for those times are consistently 35 to 36 miles. I did ride on some different streets in Tavola for this route.

10-18-2021 YTD Bike Rides Summary Today's Route
10-18-2021 YTD Bike Rides Summary for this Route

The average speed is consistent for the rides. Today the max average speed was 14.0 mph until I was riding in Kings Manor with about 4 miles left. The wind was light which helps the average speed.

Weather summary: start 73 (43% humidity, 49 dew point), a few clouds, wind E 5 mph; finish 74 (43% humidity, 50 dew point), a few clouds, wind E 7 mph.

  • 10-18-2021 Golden Cheetah Bike Ride Summary Data-1
    10-18-2021 Golden Cheetah Bike Ride Summary Data page 1
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    10-18-2021 Golden Cheetah Bike Ride Summary Data page 2

Texas Biking Action October 17th 2021

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David on the Southern Tier

By David Jelmini | www.crazyguyonabike.com

Day 29: Austin to La Grange. 3,000’ of climbing, 6:50 hrs in the saddle. A long ride to the town made famous by ZZ Top

Sunday October 17, 2021, 83 miles (134 km) – Total so far: 1,471 miles (2,367 km) Took us a while to navigate our way out of town, and pretty easy riding till Bastrop. Helped fix a flat right away, the women appreciate the men for at least something. Romaine had a wreck and broke a small bone in her hand so is out till she can seek better medical attention. Rode through Bastop and Buecher state parks which were great, no traffic, good roads, except a lot of steep climbs. …

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Pedaling For Body Heat To Offset Chilly Temperature

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Waiting until after church to ride today I thought the temperature would warm up some but not the case. Wheels on my Lynskey R300 bike rolled at 1:48 PM with 71 degrees and partly cloudy. Thankfully the wind was light at 4 mph or I would’ve probably returned home to get a long sleeve jersey. I’m not ready for cool weather. I needed 25 miles to hit 200 for the week and biked 28.69 miles so that was taken care of. This makes 2 weeks in a row at 200+. I’m getting closer to my 625 mile goal for October with 497.33 miles so far. When I finished the ride at 3:56 PM the clouds had increased some blocking more of the sun and the temperature was only 72. Pedaling upped my body heat to offset the coolness.

10-17-2021 Week Bike Rides Summary ending 10-17-2021
10-17-2021 Week Bike Rides Summary ending 10-17-2021

Today’s route is a 2021 creation. Before that I didn’t ride it. I didn’t realize I rode it 10 times. Not all of them include the San Jacinto Bayou Greenway because I didn’t find it until recently, the last couple of months maybe.

10-17-2021 YTD Bike Rides Summary Today's Route
10-17-2021 YTD Bike Rides Summary Today’s Route

These are the top results from the bike ride according to Strava. I think these come up because these segments are recently created by other people.

Strava Top Results from today's bike ride
10-17-2021 Strava Bike Ride Summary
10-17-2021 Strava Bike Ride Summary