{"id":16000,"date":"2012-10-02T17:36:02","date_gmt":"2012-10-02T22:36:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/?p=16000"},"modified":"2017-04-20T20:36:19","modified_gmt":"2017-04-21T01:36:19","slug":"feels-like-fall-october-2nd-bicycle-ride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2012\/10\/02\/feels-like-fall-october-2nd-bicycle-ride\/","title":{"rendered":"Feels Like Fall &#8211; October 2nd Bicycle Ride"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The clouds started to thicken about halfway through my bike ride. As I rode west from Huffman I glanced at the clouds to the north and they seemed dark, maybe containing some rain. This encouraged me to ride fast in case I needed to beat the rain. The wind felt cooler than when I started at 1:54 PM maybe because the wind picked up and the increased cloud cover. My route went to Huffman and back for a total of <strong>29.81 miles<\/strong> at average speed of 15.7 mph (SportTracks) or 15.8 mph (Garmin Connect), a top speed of 22.3 mph and 80.5 RPM average cadence. The riding time was 1:53:51 with 37:24 time stopped in Huffman drinking a Diet pepsi and sending some messages on my new smartphone.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe one of the reasons for the wind feeling cooler were the 17 mph gusts and the slightly lower 80 degree temperature from when I started. It seemed no matter which direction I rode the wind wanted to be a headwind. As I write this the radar shows some rain over the Humble area west of where my route went.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday I rode on my Bontrager wheels. Today I am back on the Mavic wheels with a patched tube. I am more use to the rear cogs on this wheelset. I maintained my speeds and did not have to pedal at quite as high RPM. The rear cassette on the Bontrager wheels is a SRAM but I don&#8217;t remember the gears. I will try to get some more miles of the Continental Gatorskin tires before I replace at least the rear one.<\/p>\n<p>With two days of riding in October the miles total <strong>61<\/strong> and YTD miles are now <strong>5357.85<\/strong>. Links to <a title=\"http:\/\/connect.garmin.com\/activity\/229384058\" href=\"http:\/\/connect.garmin.com\/activity\/229384058\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Garmin Connect<\/strong><\/a> and <a title=\"http:\/\/ridewithgps.com\/trips\/955443\" href=\"http:\/\/ridewithgps.com\/trips\/955443\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>RideWithGPS.com<\/strong><\/a> metrics and maps.<\/p>\n<p>[wppa type=&#8221;slide&#8221; album=&#8221;28&#8243; size=&#8221;auto&#8221;][\/wppa]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The clouds started to thicken about halfway through my bike ride. As I rode west from Huffman I glanced at the clouds to the north and they seemed dark, maybe containing some rain. This encouraged me to ride fast in <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2012\/10\/02\/feels-like-fall-october-2nd-bicycle-ride\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[22],"tags":[2195,747,2185,1424],"class_list":["post-16000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bike-ride","tag-bike-ride-report","tag-huffman-texas","tag-motobecane-le-champion","tag-road"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4tok-4a4","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16000\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}