Texas Biking Action February 22nd 2021

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Man shot while riding bike on west side

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SAN ANTONIO — A 50-year-old man was shot while riding his bike on the west side. According to the San Antonio Police Department, someone in a vehicle shot the victim.

Investigators said the victim was riding down Stagecoach Lane near Loop 410 just before 10 p.m. when a SUV pulled up and someone started shooting.

The man was hit in the stomach and taken to University Hospital.

So far, there’s no word on his condition and no one has been arrested.

If you have information that can help police solve this crime, you’re asked to contact them.

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Planned Route Stymied As I Basked In Sun

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A week ago the weather turned nasty but today it turned beautiful. I delayed the start of the bike while waiting for the appliance delivery truck to arrive with my replacement washing machine. My old one was a victim of the cold weather I think or just decided to break in sympathy. I rolled away at 1:07 PM on my Canyon Endurace bike planning on biking my “Atascocita – Walden – FM 2100” route. I followed the route until I got to Fairlake Lane. When I arrived there cars were backed up from the south as far as I could see and not moving except when one turned around and retreated to FM 1960. I have never seen this happen before on Fairlake Lane. Guessing I thought there was a problem at the railroad crossing on Old Atascocita Road or at FM 2100 where the construction is.

Since the traffic was jammed I changed the route to “Atascocita – Walden – E Lake Houston Parkway”. Instead of biking 31+ miles I settled for 28.4 miles. February biking is running into all kind of problems. I did reduce the difference between February 2020 and February 2021 to 32 miles. Reaching my 400 road mile goal for February keeps getting harder.

With the later start the temperature had time to add a couple more degrees. Weather conditions for the bike ride: start 72 (25% humidity, 33.9 dew point), fair, wind N 3 mph; finish 73 (19% humidity, 28.6 dew point), fair, wind N 12 mph. No need for leg warmers but I did wear a long sleeve jersey and windbreaker jacket. I thought with all of the cold weather last week that riding across Lake Houston the wind would be cold as blew over the water but the sun more than offset it.

Looking at the ride summary in Golden Cheetah I see better results than yesterday. Maybe I am building back after the week off the bike. 51% of the riding time was in power zones 3 through 7. The light wind probably helped and reduced the need to be in zones 6and 7 as much.

Texas Biking Action February 21st 2021

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Some Icy Biking With Cranky Geese On Frozen Sikes Lake

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With the temperature soaring well above freezing, into the balmy 50s zone, and with snow sufficiently melted, I decided my bike needed to do some rolling.

And so on this 3rd Sunday morning of the 2021 version of February I rolled north on the Circle Trail til I got to Hamilton Park. I experienced only a little snow or ice in only a couple shady locations on the Circle Trail.

Leaving Hamilton Park I encountered no icy dicey conditions rolling through the Wichita Falls Beverley Hills zone.

Same with rolling through the …

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New shop check with my teammate

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The Laborious F.A.T.

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Shook Off Winter Storm Kingwood Streets Bike Ride

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The last time I biked outside was February 9th until today. As many people know a severe winter storm hit Texas and I stayed inside. I rode in the Zwift world on the 15th and that was the last riding until today. What a change in the weather today. The temperature was 68 to 70 under a cloudy sky. Starting at 1:14 PM and uncertain if the temperature would stay put I decided to ride the Kingwood streets on my Lynskey R300 bike. Fortunately the temperature did fall and I finished at 3:05 PM covering 23.16 miles. My road miles for February total 192.7 miles. My goal is 400 but with only 7 days left getting there is not a certainty. My goal for Zwift riding is 100 miles and I am passed that with 155.8 miles for a total of 348.49 miles for the month. February weather has not been kind to my biking.

During the idle time I replaced the handlebar stem on my Lynskey R300. I kept the same manufacturer model but shortened from 100 mm to 90 mm. Today was the first ride with the new stem and I think the shorter distance was more comfortable. One measure I use for fitting is when I am on the brake hoods the handlebar should block my seeing the front axle and this is now the result. Before with the 100 mm stem I could see the front axle.

Another result of not biking for so many days is I fell behind last year’s year to date mileage. After today’s ride I am at 999 miles versus 2020’s 1,044 miles. This is a total of road miles and Zwift miles.

I wasn’t thinking about earning a medal in Strava but a bronze one showed up for 8th overall on Crit Sprint (from a stop, 1 foot clipped in) (53s). If I knew that segment was there I could’ve rode faster. Today’s route included some streets I don’t usually ride as part of the “Kingwood Streets” route to add a couple of miles. I noticed the wind seemed strong but when I finished it was 9 mph, not that strong. Maybe the idle days softened me up.