Starting early at 8:10 AM the temperature was 78 degrees but the humidity of 99% meant a sweaty bike ride. I chose the “Atascocita – Huffman – Walden” route to cross paths with other cyclists though the number today fell below most Saturdays. At the beginning of the ride I needed 12 miles to make this a 200+ mile week and ended up biking 32.03 miles making the week total 220.8 miles. My two previous weeks didn’t reach 200 miles so it is nice to be back there. Dry weather helped.

I altered the route slightly from my previous rides because of the road construction on FM 2100 between Old Atascocita road and FM 1960. Rather than ride north on FM 2100 I retraced the route on Old Atascocita Road and Fairlake Lane to FM 1960. I think that section of the roads is rougher than the opposite direction. I thought this might shorten the route a little but was about the average distance from the other 12 times I rode the route this year. Of the 13 times biking the route 12 of them was aboard my Canyon Endurace bike (today) and 1 time on my Lynskey R300 bike. Looks like I need to ride the Lynskey R300 more on this route.

When I finished the ride at 10:33 AM my shorts, jersey, arm sleeves, and gloves were soaked from perspiration. After getting off the bike I felt sweat running down my legs so I got my sweat “rag” out of the garage and wiped down before going in the house. Looking back on the weather conditions I see why; start 78 (99% humidity, 77.4 dew point), a few clouds, wind calm. Finish 93 (68% humidity, 80.6 dew point), mostly cloudy, wind S 4 mph. I had to laugh when one of the commentators of the Milan-SanRemo race said the humidity was exceptionally high at 53%. I finished my ride in time to watch the last 30 Km of that race in Italy on Flobikes.com. That is a “dry” day around Houston this time of the year.

My monthly 800 mile goal progress:

• 251.45 miles so far
• 31.43 miles average for 8 days
• need 25.8 miles per day at least
• 5.63 miles per day above the needed amount
• if I can maintain 31.43 miles per day the month would total 974.3 miles

Ride data highlights:

• heart rate average 127 bpm
• heart rate max 149 bpm
• average cadence 68 rpm
• max cadence 100 rpm
• average power 99 watts
• max power 453 watts
• Canyon Endurace odometer: 18,242 miles

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