After a week since my last road bike trip I relished the warm weather returning and getting back on my road bike. The morning temperature dipped to 54 degrees (10 more than Tuesday) and by the time I started riding at 11:52 it went up to 76 degrees. When i returned back home at 2:07 four more degrees showed up on the weather station. I must have been skeptical of the warmth because I wore a long sleeve jersey and it felt comfortable the entire ride. The scattered clouds interrupted the sun enough for some coolness in the shade aided by a light 5.8 mph north breeze. The fall weather moved into southeast Texas but the wind shifting to the southwest brought warm weather back for at least a few days. Tomorrow (Thursday) supposedly will repeat today. I plan on another road ride tomorrow as well.<\/p>\n
My route decision was more automatic than any great reasoning. I did not even pay that much attention to the wind direction since I was so happy to get back on the bike. I rode my mountain bike Monday but it is not the same. The tried and true route totaled 32.30 miles<\/strong> at a 15.6 mph average speed which agreed across all three of my route software\/websites. At the 30 mile point my Garmin showed a 15.8 mph average speed so I only lost .2 mph riding the residential streets for 2 miles. The max speed had some small variation among the three with two of them showing 22.4 mph. Average cadence was 79.2 RPM.<\/p>\n At the Atasca Oaks Drive and Atascocita Road intersection I waited through two signal cycles because I could not trip the light to change. I could have sit through more except for the school bus waiting behind pulled up and tripped the light. Sometimes I ride through the intersection but this one is very busy. As a result my time stopped (11:23) is more than it should be. My total riding time came in at 2:04:05, not counting the time stopped. The two online route services: Garmin connect<\/strong><\/a> and RideWithGPS.com<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n With today ending October riding I will move into November where I average 300 miles per month. Last year I bumped this up to 387 miles. Mileage standings after today’s ride: 50.68 miles<\/strong> this week, 643.38 miles<\/strong> for October and 5940.23 miles<\/strong> YTD. Only 60 miles away from 6000 for the year. I never been this high before.<\/p>\n [wppa type=”slide” album=”47″ size=”auto”][\/wppa]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" After a week since my last road bike trip I relished the warm weather returning and getting back on my road bike. The morning temperature dipped to 54 degrees (10 more than Tuesday) and by the time I started riding …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/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":[3932,2195,2185,1424],"class_list":["post-19184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bike-ride","tag-atascocita-walden-huffman","tag-bike-ride-report","tag-motobecane-le-champion","tag-road"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4tok-4Zq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19184","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=19184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19184\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}