{"id":25523,"date":"2014-08-30T16:02:44","date_gmt":"2014-08-30T21:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/?p=25523"},"modified":"2014-08-30T16:02:44","modified_gmt":"2014-08-30T21:02:44","slug":"what-a-difference-a-week-makes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2014\/08\/30\/what-a-difference-a-week-makes\/","title":{"rendered":"What A Difference A Week Makes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today’s ride was 40.65 miles<\/strong> compared to last Saturday’s 74.4 miles at the Hotter’N Hell 100. The temperature here was a lot lower too ranging from 83 at the start (11:01) and 88 at the finish (2:16). Hello Fall?\u00c2\u00a0 I averaged 16.2 mph on the Stroker Road – Huffman route. Even with the late start I saw two other bikers, one on Stroker Road and the other on Old Atascocita Road east of FM2100.<\/p>\n

The sky had lots of clouds with a big rain disturbance off to the east near Beaumont. According to the weather man at the Houston Chronicle the rain would stay south of I-10 so I didn’t plan on rain during the ride and that was the way it turned out. I was well north of I-10.<\/p>\n

Before the ride I was reading a post by Ray Garza at RGVCycling.com<\/strong><\/a> about the iBike Newton<\/strong><\/a>. This caused me to start thinking about the power I output during biking and how my Garmin Edge 510 doesn’t record that without a very expensive sensor setup. The iBike is not low cost but it is a lot less than the power meter sensors that work with the 510. I am thinking do I want to spend that money on this? I am still trying to figure that out.<\/p>\n

Even with the lower temperature perspiration was flowing heavily today when I stopped at the Huffman Chevron around the 29 mile point. I could tell as I was riding this was happening with the sweat dripping off my chin when I dipped it. I stopped at FM2100 and Stroker Road waiting for traffic and I created a big wet spot on the pavement. Later at the Chevron I sat on a Greensheet newspaper and it was wet when I got ready to leave. The paper towels I\u00c2\u00a0 used a the Chevron were totally wet too.<\/p>\n

I am playing around with Google Earth too. I found out one of the programs I use, SportTracks, will show the route in Google Earth. This is what it shows:<\/p>\n

\"8-30-2014<\/a><\/p>\n

I was hoping to have a live on the web map but I haven’t seen how to do that yet. I can manipulate the ride in Google Earth on my computer though.<\/p>\n

August miles now total 968.58<\/strong>, 3 miles below June’s total of 971. I plan on riding tomorrow to set\u00c2\u00a0 anew monthly high for the year. This week I rode 172.45 miles<\/strong> so far. I skipped yesterday to take of some things. Year to date moved to 5181 miles<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Links to Garmin Connect<\/strong><\/a> and RideWithGPS.com<\/strong><\/a>.<\/h3>\n
\"Ride <\/a>
Ride Metrics <\/div> <\/div>
\"Metrics\" <\/a>
Metrics <\/div> <\/div>
\"Home <\/a>
Home Weather Ride Start <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Huffman <\/a>
Huffman Chevron Weather <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Home <\/a>
Home Weather Ride Finish <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Ride <\/a>
Ride Comparison for this route <\/div> <\/div>
\"Week <\/a>
Week to Date <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"August <\/a>
August to Date <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Year <\/a>
Year to Date <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>\n

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