{"id":55706,"date":"2021-02-25T13:49:08","date_gmt":"2021-02-25T19:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/?p=55706"},"modified":"2021-02-25T13:49:11","modified_gmt":"2021-02-25T19:49:11","slug":"strong-average-speed-overcast-and-windy-bike-ride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2021\/02\/25\/strong-average-speed-overcast-and-windy-bike-ride\/","title":{"rendered":"Strong Average Speed, Overcast and Windy 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=\"Strong Average Speed, Overcast and Windy Bike Ride\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SD763TrQ5Zo?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 clouds remain and the temperature fell a couple of degrees but no reason to stay off the bike. I have a very important appointment this afternoon (get the first dose of the vaccine) so I started the bike ride at 10:28 AM. At first I was going to take a different route but I changed my mind and rode the &#8220;Forest Cove &#8211; Oakhurst &#8211; Valley Ranch&#8221; route. This route was <strong>27.55 miles<\/strong> long today. I&#8217;m getting closer to my road mile goal for February with <strong>318.9 mile<\/strong>s and a 400 mile goal. Combining road miles and Zwift miles the total for February stands <strong>474.66 miles<\/strong>, 25 miles away from the combined goal of 500 miles. I rode my Canyon Endurace CF SLX bike today. I was going to air the tires up yesterday but I forgot. I will do that before the next ride.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Weather conditions: start 71 (81% humidity, 65.3 dew point), overcast, wind S 7 mph; finish 72 (77% humidity, 64.1 dew point), overcast, wind SE 13 mph. Since it was a couple of degrees cooler I changed my attire to shorts, a long sleeve thermal jersey, and a windbreaker jacket. Several times during the ride I was in a light mist but either it moved or I rode out of it. The jacket came in handy with wind increasing during the ride.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This route was conducive to biking without stops which helped my average speed. I built it up to 14.5 mph at times but most of the ride was 14.4 mph. Headed south from Valley Ranch the headwind tried to slow me but I powered through it. Reflecting that the bike ride summary data shows only 41% of the biking time was in power zones 1 and 2 leaving 59% in zones 3 through 7. 17% was in zones 6 and 7 which good for me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-2 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/2-25-2021-Golden-Cheetah-Bike-Ride-Summary-1.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" data-attachment-id=\"55705\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2-25-2021-golden-cheetah-bike-ride-summary-1\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/2-25-2021-Golden-Cheetah-Bike-Ride-Summary-1.jpg?fit=1454%2C970&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1454,970\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" 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This may contribute to Strava telling me <strong>This was harder than your usual effort.<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe height='405' width='590' frameborder='0' allowtransparency='true' scrolling='no' src='https:\/\/www.strava.com\/activities\/4849128904\/embed\/012096927d823db4a12d77267a6910b4dae49789'><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/ridewithgps.com\/embeds?type=trip&#038;id=63053619&#038;sampleGraph=true\" style=\"width: 1px; min-width: 90%; height: 1000px; border: none;\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The clouds remain and the temperature fell a couple of degrees but no reason to stay off the bike. I have a very important appointment this afternoon (get the first dose of the vaccine) so I started the bike ride <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2021\/02\/25\/strong-average-speed-overcast-and-windy-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":[2560,212,5297,4719,5324,5451,1424],"class_list":["post-55706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bike-ride","tag-bicycle","tag-bicycling","tag-bike","tag-biking","tag-canyon-endurace-cf-slx","tag-forest-cove-oakhurst-valley-ranch","tag-road"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4tok-euu","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55706","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=55706"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55707,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55706\/revisions\/55707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}