{"id":56150,"date":"2021-03-25T17:25:44","date_gmt":"2021-03-25T22:25:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/?p=56150"},"modified":"2021-03-25T17:30:50","modified_gmt":"2021-03-25T22:30:50","slug":"wind-returns-biking-kingwood-stroker-road-kingwood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2021\/03\/25\/wind-returns-biking-kingwood-stroker-road-kingwood\/","title":{"rendered":"Wind Returns Biking Kingwood &#8211; Stroker Road &#8211; Kingwood"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Wind Returns Biking Kingwood - Stroker Road - Kingwood\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SMo6fek8iq4?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 class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Damp and dreary weather left the area. Sun returned before I started today&#8217;s bike ride at 11:56 AM. Wind returned too. Thinking of of route options I wanted one over 40 miles. I settled on a variation of the &#8220;Stroker Road &#8211; Huffman&#8221; route to avoid the construction on FM 2100. I called this variation the &#8220;Kingwood &#8211; Stroker Road &#8211; Kingwood&#8221; route. The last time I bike to Stroker Road was June 30th, 2020. Today&#8217;s route was longer than the other coming in at <strong>46.47 miles<\/strong> versus 43 miles. I needed the extra miles to make up for the shorter Zwift ride yesterday. My week now totals <strong>137.14 miles<\/strong> putting 200+ miles within reach weather permitting. March totals <strong>571.1 road miles<\/strong> towards my 600 mile goal. Today was the longest bike ride this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Wind increased due to a front moving into the area. Getting to Stroker Road a tailwind pushed me but coming back the headwind tried to slow me down. During the ride the wind got stronger. What the weather conditions were: start 72 (61% humidity, 57.5 dew point), partly cloudy, wind NW 12 mph; finish 79 (35% humidity, 49.4 dew point), a few clouds, wind NW 14 mph gusts 22 mph. I wasn&#8217;t sure the temperature would get to the 80 degree forecast so I wore shorts, long sleeve jersey, and a windbreaker jacket. By the time I finished at 3:34 PM I looked at the jacket and saw salt stains from sweating but I didn&#8217;t feel overly hot. I think the strong wind took care of that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I modified the Drift camera setup, adding shelf liner under the camera to keep it from moving and isolate picking up sound from the handlebar. I also moved the external mic from resting on top of the camera hoping to cut down on the noise and put a cover on the builtin mic to mute it some. Wind noise still shows up but not quite as bad. I am waiting on a mount to move the Drift camera below my bike computer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With the strong wind and power output <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.strava.com\/activities\/5010260600\">Strava<\/a><\/strong> concluded today&#8217;s bike ride was harder than my usual efforts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.strava.com\/activities\/5010260600\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1054\" height=\"1041\" data-attachment-id=\"56149\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/3-25-2021-strava-bike-ride-summary\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/3-25-2021-Strava-Bike-Ride-Summary.jpg?fit=1054%2C1041&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1054,1041\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"3-25-2021 Strava Bike Ride Summary\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;3-25-2021 Strava Bike Ride Summary&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/3-25-2021-Strava-Bike-Ride-Summary.jpg?fit=456%2C450&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/3-25-2021-Strava-Bike-Ride-Summary.jpg?fit=607%2C600&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/3-25-2021-Strava-Bike-Ride-Summary.jpg?resize=1054%2C1041&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"3-25-2021 Strava Bike Ride Summary\" class=\"wp-image-56149\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/3-25-2021-Strava-Bike-Ride-Summary.jpg?w=1054&amp;ssl=1 1054w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/3-25-2021-Strava-Bike-Ride-Summary.jpg?resize=456%2C450&amp;ssl=1 456w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/3-25-2021-Strava-Bike-Ride-Summary.jpg?resize=607%2C600&amp;ssl=1 607w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/3-25-2021-Strava-Bike-Ride-Summary.jpg?resize=486%2C480&amp;ssl=1 486w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1054px) 100vw, 1054px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/ridewithgps.com\/embeds?type=trip&amp;id=64391740&amp;sampleGraph=true\" style=\"width: 1px; 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Sun returned before I started today&#8217;s bike ride at 11:56 AM. Wind returned too. Thinking of of route options I wanted one over 40 miles. I settled on a variation of the &#8220;Stroker <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2021\/03\/25\/wind-returns-biking-kingwood-stroker-road-kingwood\/\"><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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[22],"tags":[2560,212,5297,5324,4716,5490,1424],"class_list":["post-56150","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-kingwood-stroker-road-kingwood","tag-road"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4tok-eBE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56150","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=56150"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56152,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56150\/revisions\/56152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}