{"id":35194,"date":"2017-02-01T15:26:56","date_gmt":"2017-02-01T21:26:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/?p=35194"},"modified":"2017-02-01T15:26:56","modified_gmt":"2017-02-01T21:26:56","slug":"winter-legs-wilt-on-third-bike-ride-in-a-row","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2017\/02\/01\/winter-legs-wilt-on-third-bike-ride-in-a-row\/","title":{"rendered":"Winter Legs Wilt on Third Bike Ride in a Row"},"content":{"rendered":"

My winter legs showed on today’s ride with this being the third day in a row bicycling. Biking along the “New Caney – Gene Campbell Road” route I biked north with the wind until New Caney where I turned to the northwest for a couple of miles. This section wasn’t directly into the wind but I knew when I moved to Gene Campbell Road the headwind would be waiting. Today’s bike ride totaled 35.37 miles<\/strong>. with about 20 miles of headwind. Up to hitting the headwind I managed to get my average speed up to 15.0 mph but in the headwind it slowly went down to 14.4 mph at the end of the ride.<\/p>\n

I left home at 11:56 and finished at 2:25. The weather during the bie ride.<\/p>\n

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The blue sky went away replaced with a partly cloudy sky but the temperature bumped a couple of degrees to 81. The wind that taxed my “winter” legs was from the SW at 10 mph with 20 mph gusts. From the 19 mile point where I was on FM1314 is where my legs started to complain. The occasional 18 wheeler passing me on FM1314 helped to suck the wind away from and I could speed up until the effect wore off.<\/p>\n

I probably overdressed today with a long sleeve thermal jersey under a short sleeve jersey causing me to sweat more than I might have with a regular long sleeve jersey. I was expecting of the wind chill to be more than it turned out to be. Since I wasn’t riding near Lake Houston I should have factored that in.<\/p>\n

Links to RideWithGPS.com<\/strong><\/a> and Strava.com<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

My February goal is 345 miles and today’s riding got me 10% of the way there. We will see how February’s weather allows me to bicycle.<\/p>\n

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