{"id":35849,"date":"2017-04-07T16:47:57","date_gmt":"2017-04-07T21:47:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/?p=35849"},"modified":"2017-04-07T16:47:57","modified_gmt":"2017-04-07T21:47:57","slug":"first-love-bug-spotting-bike-ride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2017\/04\/07\/first-love-bug-spotting-bike-ride\/","title":{"rendered":"First Love Bug Spotting Bike Ride"},"content":{"rendered":"

I bicycled the “May Park Community Center – Huffman” route today for a total of 40.27 miles<\/strong> boosting my April miles to 181.73<\/strong> towards my 772 mile goal for April. The bike ride began at 11:56 and finished at 3:11. The weather was very nice though I would prefer the temperature to be a few degrees higher. I wore a long sleeve jersey (non-thermal) in case the 6 mph south breeze was chilly and to avoid sunscreen on my arms. It was a wise choice. At times the wind was chilly which would not be comfortable in a short sleeve jersey.<\/p>\n

At the start of the bike ride I noticed the PowerPod was not sending watts information to my Wahoo Elemnt. I pressed the PowerPod start button again, watts starting showing on the Elemnt but the PowerPod status button blinked red. I don’t know what this means so I pressed the PowerPod start button again during the ride but the status light continued to blink red. Maybe it needs to be charge? I sent an email to Velocomp requesting help.<\/p>\n

The bike ride went smoothly except for the PowerPod issue. As I rode east of Huffman on I saw a Jeep with what looked like “love bug” remains smashed on the windshield and later when I took a short rest stop at the Huffman Chevron a few “love bugs” landed on my bike. I guess I will see more as the month progresses.<\/p>\n

Tomorrow is The Liberty Freedom Ride<\/strong><\/a> in Liberty, TX. I rode last year but there was a section of the route (County Road 2099) with many dog chases and I have been going back and forth on whether to ride this year. The weather looks great for biking tomorrow so no matter where I ride it will be nice.<\/p>\n

Link to today’s bike ride at Strava.com<\/a> and RideWithGPS.com<\/a>.<\/h3>\n

\"Ride<\/a><\/p>\n

\"4-7-2017 <\/a> <\/div> <\/div>
\"4-7-2017 <\/a> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>\n

\"Strava<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I bicycled the “May Park Community Center – Huffman” route today for a total of 40.27 miles boosting my April miles to 181.73 towards my 772 mile goal for April. The bike ride began at 11:56 and finished at 3:11. …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[5205,1424,4699],"class_list":["post-35849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bike-ride","tag-may-park-community-center-huffman","tag-road","tag-stradalli-rp-14-carbon"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4tok-9kd","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35849","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=35849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35849\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}