I spent several hours yesterday afternoon and evening replacing the ceiling fan in our family room. I went up and down the step ladder what seemed like a hundred times working out my leg muscles. I think the biking helped me survive the trips and today I wasn’t hurting so I went for a bike ride on the “Atascocita – Walden – Huffman” route for 33.13 miles. The wind was punishing, making my ceiling fan tired legs pay for the privilege to ride. From the south the wind moved at 18 mph with 26 mph gusts. When I started biking at 11:34 I knew the wind was moving around but I didn’t realize it was that strong. For the first 19 miles the route generally went into the wind and the few times a tailwind appeared I rode much quicker.
The 19 mile point came at the left turn onto FM 2100 and biking to Huffman was much easier though my legs weren’t able to supply the power they could’ve earlier in the ride. At Huffman I went west on FM 1960 and the trees and traffic on my left broke the wind some but once I was on the causeway over Lake Houston I held onto the handlebars because the wind wanted to push my wheels to the right. This was of the few times the wide section carbon rims take more effort than they save.
Once I crossed the lake and rode into Atascocita Shores I was protected some by the trees and houses. But the wind still tired to grab whenever I rode into where the wind wasn’t restricted.
Making good time I crossed Kingwood Drive well before the traffic got heavy and finished the ride at 2:06. That was when I noticed Strava.com was down due to Amazon.com S3 servers being off line. I will upload my ride data when Strava is back online.
As I rode back home I passed the spot where I tried to take pictures of the azaleas blooming on last Friday’s bike ride. This time the pictures were much better.
Links to RideWithGPS.com and Strava.com metrics and maps.
SportTracks Ride Summary (Click on the image to enlarge it.)
Today’s bike ride is the last one for a warmer than usual February. My goal was to bicycle 345 miles and I beat that by cycling 495.1 miles. Below is a summary of February biking from the Golden Cheetah program. The mileage is slightly higher due to different calculation from SportTracks. (Click on the image to enlarge it.)
