I got home from church a little later than normal and the outside temperature still rested below 60 degrees. Deciding a Zwift event was more than I wanted I chose to free ride on the Watopia Tick Tock course. According to ZwiftInsider.com this route “is a clockwise loop covering Fuego Flats and portions of the Ocean Boulevard tube. Released as part of Zwift’s Fuego Flats desert expansion, this route is flatter than Watopia Flat or Volcano Flat, with the only pitchy bits being in and out of Fuego Flats, and in and out of the ocean tunnel.” Free rides seem to be squishy on the starting location and today was no exception. I took the Zwift distance and climbing numbers 10.5 miles and 157 feet of climbing as gospel but my bike ride was 10.72 miles with 174 feet of climbing. Close but not exact. Since there is no announcement when I completed the route I stopped after passing the starting pen entrance. As I approached the end the bottom of the “Nearby Zwifter” box showed 9,385 Zwifting. I did pass and get passed by many people in both directions.
This was an easy bike ride to finish the week. I biked every day this week either on the road or in Zwift. I am making progress on my road goal while my Zwift goal is much closer.
For a winter week 169.8 miles is good. I am ahead in each goal except for road miles for the year. But I am ahead of last year’s miles at this point. The chart below compares years 2011 through 2021 YTD miles. 2021 has the most at this time.
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I waited for the temperature to finally get above 60 because I wanted road miles not Zwift miles today. The bike ride started at 1:12 PM with me bundled up. I didn’t quite look like Bib the Michlein Man but close. I did stay warm on the ride. The bike for today was my Canyon Endurace. The route was south and east on what I call the “Atascocita – FM 2100 – Walden” route. Today I biked 31.78 miles putting me slightly ahead of the pace needed to reach my 400 mile goal for the month at 104 miles. I finished at 3:48 PM.
For the chilly weather I wore shorts, leg warmers, a long sleeve jersey over a thermal long sleeve jersey, windbreaker jacket, and full finger gloves. Thankfully the wind was not as strong as my last road bike ride on Thursday. The sun tried break through the clouds when I reached Atascocita Shores Drive on the way to FM 2100 but the clouds regained the upper hand most of the ride adding to the chill effect. Weather conditions: start 61 (75% humidity, 53.3 dew point), overcast, wind W 5 mph; finish 65 (76% humidity, 57.3 dew point), mostly cloudy, wind W 6 mph. I saw another cyclist and he looked as bundled up as me. One reason I pushed for road miles is the weather for the middle of next week looks like it will be very cold, for Houston anyway. That means Zwifting and I am ahead of the pace to reach my 100 mile goal for the month. Before then I may enjoy a couple of outside bike rides. Due to the chilly wind today I stopped 4 or 5 times for a running nose using the tissues I brought because gas stations stopped putting paper towels at the pumps.
An overview of today’s bike ride from Golden Cheetah.
According to Strava today’s bike ride was consistent with my usual efforts.
