{"id":39492,"date":"2018-03-03T16:06:36","date_gmt":"2018-03-03T22:06:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/?p=39492"},"modified":"2018-03-03T16:06:36","modified_gmt":"2018-03-03T22:06:36","slug":"food-trucks-plus-curious-man-bike-ride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2018\/03\/03\/food-trucks-plus-curious-man-bike-ride\/","title":{"rendered":"Food Trucks Plus A Curious Man bike Ride"},"content":{"rendered":"

Somehow the “indoor” setting got selected before I started today’s bike ride and 1.6 miles elapsed before I caught it. But the “indoor” miles still register in the ride total even though the map shows me starting at a spot after the start. I will take it. The route chosen: “Atascocita – Walden – Huffman” with 35.62 miles<\/strong> putting the week’s total at 199.2 miles<\/strong> so far. If the weather cooperates on Sunday I could be over 200 miles. March is up to 104.4 miles<\/strong> with a goal of 585 miles<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

After yesterday’s ride I wrote about the mounting tab breaking off the Wahoo Elemnt computer and the other one looking very fragile with a stress line pointing to it breaking soon. I don’t have another computer except for my phone so I wasn’t sure how I could use the Elemnt while I wait on a response from Wahoo support. After some “heavy” thinking I thought of a way to hold it in place. Not fancy or aerodynamic but functional.<\/p>\n

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I also considered Velcro but I didn’t want to cut off the remaining tab and rely solely on Velcro. No problems with the temporary mount during the ride.<\/p>\n

Wind continues to be challenging during the ride. It was from the SE at 15 mph today which made for extra pedaling effort whenever I had a headwind. The tailwind finally came into play at the turn from Old Atascocita Road onto FM 2100 north but it was still bothersome until I started west on FM 1960. At the 11:49 am start the sky was overcast after some sun earlier and the temperature was 73 with 53% humidity. I dressed differently than yesterday with shorts, long sleeve thermal jersey and windbreaker jacket. At first I thought maybe I overdressed but as the sun feel behind the overcast sky I felt cooler and glad I wore the jacket.<\/p>\n

Nothing unusual along the route except when I arrived at Kingwood town Center Park there were a bunch of food trucks, booths and people. I forgot the event rescheduled to today from a rain out a week or so ago. On the way back I decided to stop and take a few pictures. When I stopped a man hurried walk towards me. I wasn’t sure if he was coming to see me or I was in his path to somewhere else. It turned out he wanted to talk to me about my Canyon Endurace CF SLX bike. He has been looking at the Canyon bikes online but had not seen one in person. We talked about the Canyon and I told him I am pleased with purchase. It rides great. He told me his road bike is 10 years old but he hasn’t been able to ride for awhile due to an injury. I handed him a Texbiker.net business card when he was getting ready to leave. A few photos of the event.<\/p>\n

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From Town Center I rode home to finish the ride at 2:34 pm.<\/p>\n

Second day using the TICKRFit heart monitor. It works great. I hope to learn more about my heart rate as I ride more.<\/p>\n

Tomorrow the weather looks like a repeat of today. I must decide how to fit in a ride and watch the University of Cincinnati Bearcat basketball game with Wichita State. The game starts at 11 am and I usually get home from church around 11:35. I have the DVR set to record it. Do I ride and then watch or watch and then ride?<\/p>\n

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Link to Strava Ride Summary<\/a><\/h2>\n

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