37 MPH Descent Cause …. Why Not¯_(ツ)_/¯ from bikehouston
Found this really rare type of Central Texas gravel this morning. Do recommend.#rideyourbike pic.twitter.com/OQvWpbYGpZ
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STOLEN – Black VSF Fahrradmanufaktur T-50 Diamant frame in Austin, TX https://t.co/XFd78ceaoG pic.twitter.com/7fhjudlpJA
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A late start on today’s Zwift ride on the Beach island course at 2:57 PM. Outside it was 37 degrees and raining, a great reason to ride Zwift. I rode the course but not as part of an event. I rode 7.98 miles with 157 feet of climbing. No group to keep up with but I did ride with some other riders to take advantage of the draft.
With today ending the week’s biking an update on my goals. After Tuesday all riding was on Zwift as it cooled down.
Strava segments showed some medals: 1 gold, 3 silver, and 2 bronze.
Some screenshots of the ride.
Former Midland toy store merchant passed away on December 18, 2020, in Sherman, Texas. Robert was born in Texarkana, Arkansas on December 28, 1928 and was the youngest of eight children of Mr and Mrs E. H. Peyton, his maternal grandfather was Jules Driver, a pioneer Midland County rancher who homesteaded a ranch in southwest Midland County in the mid 1880’s. He moved to Midland in 1944 from Moody, Texas and graduated from Midland High School in 1947. Both parents died in an automobile accident on Highway 80 west of Midland in 1948. He attended Draughons Business College in Abilene and began work in 1948 as bookkeeper and office manager for the Avery Stanford Company, Architects and Engineers and was employed there until 1952. He was married in 1949 to Eurella Richardson and together they had three children, she passed away in 1972 after a short illness. He married Susan Farris in 1973. In September 1952, together with his brother, R.E. (Dick) Peyton established Midland’s first exclusive toy store, Toy Town on Andrews Highway. In 1961 they built a larger store on West Michigan and merged their toy store with their bicycle and …
7.5% The Best Climb I Could Find from bikehouston
Very excited for Kelly and Michael on this original Coffee / Bike shop concept. Soft opening today. 🙠for the nice SRAM bottles and face mask gifts. I love it.
The Tour de Zwift Stage 2 event today fit my schedule starting at 10:00 AM. I selected Group E. The course was one I had not rode before: the 2019 UCI Worlds Harrogate Circuit near London. The event said 2 laps around the 8.6 mile course with 1613 feet of climbing. Not the longest Zwift ride since I resumed in December but definitely the hilliest. Supposedly Group E rode at an average 1.0 – 2.0 W/Kg but with all of the hills and aggressive riders I was out of that range most of the ride. 918 people registered but in the KOM and Sprint standings the most I saw was 524. I rode 17.37 miles in 1:05:31 to average 15.9 mph.
I managed to stay with other people all of the ride, sometimes moving ahead to a group or fall back to another group. On some hills I passed riders and some passed me. Without a fence I am surprised at how I stayed together. Some screenshots from Stage 2.
To illustrate the climbing this is the profile from SportTracks and data from the Stravini plugin for Strava.
This the first ride with percentage of ride time in power zones resembles my road rides based on Golden Cheetah summary data of the ride.
Since this is the first time on this course I collected segment medals in Strava: 5 gold, 6 silver, and 13 bronze. Some of these segments have to be in other courses or they would all be gold.