{"id":56205,"date":"2021-04-03T15:40:48","date_gmt":"2021-04-03T20:40:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/?p=56205"},"modified":"2021-04-03T15:40:51","modified_gmt":"2021-04-03T20:40:51","slug":"baytown-ymca-gator-bike-ride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2021\/04\/03\/baytown-ymca-gator-bike-ride\/","title":{"rendered":"Baytown YMCA Gator 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=\"Baytown YMCA Gator Bike Ride\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AmYp2BPRVcI?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\">Getting up at 4:40 AM takes a lot of effort but that is what it took to go to the Baytown YMCA Gator Ride. I left home before 6 AM driving to Baytown, about 50 miles away. I experienced my first drive through packet pickup. Only pre-registration for the ride. When I arrived at Lee College there was a line of cars but it didn&#8217;t take long to get my packet and find a parking spot. After parking the Jeep I walked around the parking lot handing out Texbiker.net business cards. I have not done that in over a year. The Gator Ride was the last organized ride for me before the virus closed bike rides. This year the ride is a month later rather than the 1st Saturday in March.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The camera setup included the Drift camera mounted under my Bolt computer and the GoPro Hero 7 Black as a handheld camera.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I hoped that would warm up the weather and it did a tiny bit. Instead of temperatures in the 40&#8217;s it was in the 50&#8217;s. Here is the weather at the start and finish. Not much difference.<\/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\/04\/4-3-2021-Weather-Start-of-Gator-Ride.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"270\" height=\"600\" data-attachment-id=\"56204\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/4-3-2021-weather-start-of-gator-ride\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/4-3-2021-Weather-Start-of-Gator-Ride.jpg?fit=1080%2C2400&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1080,2400\" 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=\"4-3-2021 Weather Start of Gator Ride\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;4-3-2021 Weather Start of Gator Ride&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;4-3-2021 Weather Start of Gator Ride&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/4-3-2021-Weather-Start-of-Gator-Ride.jpg?fit=203%2C450&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/4-3-2021-Weather-Start-of-Gator-Ride.jpg?fit=270%2C600&amp;ssl=1\" 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https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/4-3-2021-Weather-Start-of-Gator-Ride.jpg?resize=691%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 691w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/4-3-2021-Weather-Start-of-Gator-Ride.jpg?resize=922%2C2048&amp;ssl=1 922w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/4-3-2021-Weather-Start-of-Gator-Ride.jpg?w=1080&amp;ssl=1 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 270px) 100vw, 270px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-item__caption\">4-3-2021 Weather Start of Gator Ride<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/4-3-2021-Weather-Finish-of-Gator-Ride.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"270\" height=\"600\" data-attachment-id=\"56203\" 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data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/4-3-2021-Weather-Finish-of-Gator-Ride.jpg?fit=203%2C450&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/4-3-2021-Weather-Finish-of-Gator-Ride.jpg?fit=270%2C600&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/4-3-2021-Weather-Finish-of-Gator-Ride-270x600.jpg?resize=270%2C600&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"4-3-2021 Weather Finish of Gator Ride\" data-id=\"56203\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/4-3-2021-Weather-Finish-of-Gator-Ride.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/4-3-2021-weather-finish-of-gator-ride\/\" class=\"wp-image-56203\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/4-3-2021-Weather-Finish-of-Gator-Ride.jpg?resize=270%2C600&amp;ssl=1 270w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/4-3-2021-Weather-Finish-of-Gator-Ride.jpg?resize=203%2C450&amp;ssl=1 203w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/4-3-2021-Weather-Finish-of-Gator-Ride.jpg?resize=216%2C480&amp;ssl=1 216w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/4-3-2021-Weather-Finish-of-Gator-Ride.jpg?resize=691%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 691w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/4-3-2021-Weather-Finish-of-Gator-Ride.jpg?resize=922%2C2048&amp;ssl=1 922w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/4-3-2021-Weather-Finish-of-Gator-Ride.jpg?w=1080&amp;ssl=1 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 270px) 100vw, 270px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-item__caption\">4-3-2021 Weather Finish of Gator Ride<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Getting the Canyon Endurace CF SLX bike out of the Jeep I changed into my bike ride gear and rode to the starting area. No mass start, riders started onto the route as they wanted. I started at 7:32 AM along with a few others. Baytown streets have rough expansion seams making for a bumpy ride at times. I chose the 51 mile route which turned out to be <strong>52.37 miles<\/strong>. One reason for the extra distance compared to last year was rest stop 3 moved from a fire station on FM 1942 to the Baytown Soccer Park on N. Main which required a .6 mile ride from FM 1942 to the stop and then back to FM 1942. Riding on FM 1942 was on nice smooth asphalt that looked relatively new with a generous shoulder most of the time. The distance from Rest Stop 2 to number 3 was about 14 miles. I stayed at #3 for about 10 minutes eating snacks before leaving.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The highest number I saw was 350 but I may have missed others because I didn&#8217;t think to look at numbers until several miles into the ride.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I cut 4 minutes off riding time compared to last year with the slightly shorter distance. Today&#8217;s riding time: 3:27:51 versus 3:31:59 in 2020. Today I finished the ride at 11:28 AM.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Year to date miles still trails 2020 by 10 miles. I thought today&#8217;s miles would&#8217;ve put me ahead of 2020. YTD for 2021 stands at 2,178 miles. On this day in 2020 my ride distance was 36.6 miles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"embedly-responsive\" style=\"position: relative;padding-bottom: 78.2227%;height: 0;overflow: hidden;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"embedly-embed\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen src=\"https:\/\/cdn.embedly.com\/widgets\/media.html?src=https:\/\/www.relive.cc\/view\/vAOZPZJm8yq\/widget?r=embed-site&#038;url=https:\/\/www.relive.cc\/view\/vAOZPZJm8yq?r=embed-site&#038;image=https:\/\/www.relive.cc\/view\/vAOZPZJm8yq\/png?x-ref=embed-site&#038;key=f1631a41cb254ca5b035dc5747a5bd75&#038;type=text\/html&#038;schema=relive\" width=\"1024\" height=\"801\" style=\"position: absolute;top: 0;left: 0;width: 100%;height: 100%;\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Strava shows I set 2 personal records and 2 second fastest times on different segments. This 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\/5062714544\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1056\" height=\"1257\" data-attachment-id=\"56202\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/4-3-2021-strava-bike-ride-summary\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/4-3-2021-Strava-Bike-Ride-Summary.jpg?fit=1056%2C1257&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1056,1257\" 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=\"4-3-2021 Strava Bike Ride Summary\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;4-3-2021 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\/04\/4-3-2021-Strava-Bike-Ride-Summary.jpg?fit=378%2C450&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/4-3-2021-Strava-Bike-Ride-Summary.jpg?fit=504%2C600&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/4-3-2021-Strava-Bike-Ride-Summary.jpg?resize=1056%2C1257&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"4-3-2021 Strava Bike Ride Summary\" class=\"wp-image-56202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/4-3-2021-Strava-Bike-Ride-Summary.jpg?w=1056&amp;ssl=1 1056w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/4-3-2021-Strava-Bike-Ride-Summary.jpg?resize=378%2C450&amp;ssl=1 378w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/4-3-2021-Strava-Bike-Ride-Summary.jpg?resize=504%2C600&amp;ssl=1 504w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/4-3-2021-Strava-Bike-Ride-Summary.jpg?resize=403%2C480&amp;ssl=1 403w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1056px) 100vw, 1056px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Getting up at 4:40 AM takes a lot of effort but that is what it took to go to the Baytown YMCA Gator Ride. I left home before 6 AM driving to Baytown, about 50 miles away. 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