{"id":55678,"date":"2021-02-21T16:34:33","date_gmt":"2021-02-21T22:34:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/?p=55678"},"modified":"2021-02-21T16:34:36","modified_gmt":"2021-02-21T22:34:36","slug":"shook-off-winter-storm-kingwood-streets-bike-ride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2021\/02\/21\/shook-off-winter-storm-kingwood-streets-bike-ride\/","title":{"rendered":"Shook Off Winter Storm Kingwood Streets Bike Ride"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-embed-handler wp-block-embed-embed-handler wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Shook Off Winter Storm Kingwood Streets Bike Ride\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MP4_NebUVKo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The last time I biked outside was February 9th until today. As many people know a severe winter storm hit Texas and I stayed inside. I rode in the Zwift world on the 15th and that was the last riding until today. What a change in the weather today. The temperature was 68 to 70 under a cloudy sky. Starting at 1:14 PM and uncertain if the temperature would stay put I decided to ride the Kingwood streets on my Lynskey R300 bike. Fortunately the temperature did fall and I finished at 3:05 PM covering 23.16 miles. My road miles for February total 192.7 miles. My goal is 400 but with only 7 days left getting there is not a certainty. My goal for Zwift riding is 100 miles and I am passed that with 155.8 miles for a total of 348.49 miles for the month. February weather has not been kind to my biking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During the idle time I replaced the handlebar stem on my Lynskey R300. I kept the same manufacturer model but shortened from 100 mm to 90 mm. Today was the first ride with the new stem and I think the shorter distance was more comfortable. One measure I use for fitting is when I am on the brake hoods the handlebar should block my seeing the front axle and this is now the result. Before with the 100 mm stem I could see the front axle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Another result of not biking for so many days is I fell behind last year&#8217;s year to date mileage. After today&#8217;s ride I am at 999 miles versus 2020&#8217;s 1,044 miles. This is a total of road miles and Zwift miles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I wasn&#8217;t thinking about earning a medal in Strava but a bronze one showed up for 8th overall on Crit Sprint (from a stop, 1 foot clipped in) (53s). If I knew that segment was there I could&#8217;ve rode faster. Today&#8217;s route included some streets I don&#8217;t usually ride as part of the &#8220;Kingwood Streets&#8221; route to add a couple of miles. I noticed the wind seemed strong but when I finished it was 9 mph, not that strong. Maybe the idle days softened me up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/ridewithgps.com\/embeds?type=trip&#038;id=62892699&#038;sampleGraph=true\" style=\"width: 1px; min-width: 95%; height: 900px; border: none;\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<iframe height='405' width='590' frameborder='0' allowtransparency='true' scrolling='no' src='https:\/\/www.strava.com\/activities\/4827207298\/embed\/07091bc1f68f56ad217e700d94388a7a3aec9912'><\/iframe>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The last time I biked outside was February 9th until today. As many people know a severe winter storm hit Texas and I stayed inside. I rode in the Zwift world on the 15th and that was the last riding <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2021\/02\/21\/shook-off-winter-storm-kingwood-streets-bike-ride\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/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":[2560,5317,5383],"class_list":["post-55678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bike-ride","tag-bicycle","tag-kingwood-streets","tag-lynskey-r300-titanium-bike"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4tok-eu2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55678","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=55678"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55679,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55678\/revisions\/55679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}