Getting up at 5:05 AM to go the ride is not my most favorite thing but throw in 39 degrees and windy, whoa! I left home at 6:31 AM, about a minute late, I arrived at Lee College around 7:20 AM to 48 degrees which felt colder with the wind. Before going to the gym to pickup my ride number and T-shirt I walked around the parking lot handing out Texbiker business cards. I gave away all I brought with thank yous from each person.
I decided using my phone for a bike computer is not my thing. The phone battery runs down before the rides ends (I switched to a backup phone at rest stop 3), the phone mount on the Canyon did not want to stay straight and at each bump it twisted, and the data display options are not what I want. So until my new computer arrives on Monday I will be Zwifting.
Weather dominated today’s bike ride and I dressed accordingly: shorts, leg warmers, long sleeve thermal jersey, long sleeve regular jersey, wind jacket, full finger gloves, and in case it warmed up half finger gloves but they never got used. At rest stop 2 I looked at the weather and saw the 17 mph wind, no wonder it was so hard pedaling but I didn’t see the power output on the phone. I started rolling at 8:05 AM and finished at 12:11 PM. Thank goodness for the Chick-Fil-A sack lunch at the finish. I sat in the Jeep after putting the Canyon Endurace away and ate the warm sandwich, Lays chips, and 2 Oreo cookies. Now I could drive home.
The video compresses the 51 mile ride into 16 minutes while it took me 3:31:59 to ride it.
The SportTracks activity page lacks power and cadence when I switched phones because I didn’t connect those sensors. I thought I did connect them at the rest stop.
The Strava ride activity covers two because of the split when I changed phones.
