{"id":55690,"date":"2021-02-23T15:36:41","date_gmt":"2021-02-23T21:36:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/?p=55690"},"modified":"2021-02-23T15:36:44","modified_gmt":"2021-02-23T21:36:44","slug":"77-degrees-blue-sky-bike-ride-to-tavola","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2021\/02\/23\/77-degrees-blue-sky-bike-ride-to-tavola\/","title":{"rendered":"77 Degrees, Blue Sky Bike Ride to Tavola"},"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=\"77 Degrees, Blue Sky Bike Ride to Tavola\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/li8brHIr94I?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>Some fantastic spring weather today in February. I was able to start today&#8217;s bike ride earlier with wheel rolling at 11:28 AM. Not waiting on anybody today. I ride my Canyon Endurace bike north on my &#8220;New Caney &#8211; Tavola &#8211; Valley Ranch&#8221; route. The bike ride went 36.09 miles. this boosted my road miles for February to 257.2 leaving 143 miles to reach my goal for February. I don&#8217;t think I going to get there but I may get close. Including Zwift miles my total is 412.99, only 87 miles short of the combined goal of 500 miles. This one looks more reachable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The video shows the bright blue sky and excellent spring weather. Weather conditions for the bike ride: start 74 (30% humidity, 40.8 dew point), a few clouds, wind S 10 mph; finish 77 (30% humidity, 43.6 dew point), a few clouds, wind S 10 mph. No need for leg warmers and I probably could&#8217;ve swapped a short sleeve jersey for the jacket but I wasn&#8217;t sure how the wind chill would be. I wore a new pair of Bellwether Endurance Gel shorts for the ride. These replaced a pair that I first wore on 8-2-2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By the time I reached Tavola I built my average speed to 14.2 mph. I thought once I turned back to the south that would go down but I held it until the southbound US59 frontage road at Kellington before Kingwood Drive. For some reason I seem to lose about a .1 mph average speed riding from Kingwood Place Drive to the frontage road. There is a slight incline on Kellington but I try to power through it, sometimes successfully and other times not. 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I was able to start today&#8217;s bike ride earlier with wheel rolling at 11:28 AM. Not waiting on anybody today. I ride my Canyon Endurace bike north on my &#8220;New Caney &#8211; Tavola <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2021\/02\/23\/77-degrees-blue-sky-bike-ride-to-tavola\/\"><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":[2560,212,5297,5324,4716,5287,1424],"class_list":["post-55690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bike-ride","tag-bicycle","tag-bicycling","tag-bike","tag-canyon-endurace-cf-slx","tag-cycling","tag-new-caney-tavola-valley-ranch","tag-road"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4tok-eue","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55690","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=55690"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55691,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55690\/revisions\/55691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}