{"id":56416,"date":"2021-04-30T14:31:22","date_gmt":"2021-04-30T19:31:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/?p=56416"},"modified":"2021-04-30T14:31:24","modified_gmt":"2021-04-30T19:31:24","slug":"stymied-by-much-needed-rain-april-bike-rides-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2021\/04\/30\/stymied-by-much-needed-rain-april-bike-rides-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Stymied By Much Needed Rain, April Bike Rides Review"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>My chance to add more miles to April fell victim rain. Starting early this morning my home weather station recorded 3.48&#8243; of rain as of this post. I needed 8 more miles for April to exceed July 2020&#8217;s 922 miles. But that won&#8217;t happen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>April was all road biking with Zwift not in the picture. I biked two organized rides: the Baytown YMCA Gator Ride and the Tour de RACHA. Those were the first organized rides since March 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I did not ride 4 days which could&#8217;ve increased the miles now that I look back. One of those days I recovered from my second dose of COVID-19 vaccine, 2 were rest days, and today was rain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There were 3 weeks of 200+ miles which helped keep me close to April 2020 miles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/4-30-2021-SportTracks-April-Bike-Rides-Summary.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"769\" data-attachment-id=\"56415\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/4-30-2021-sporttracks-april-bike-rides-summary\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/4-30-2021-SportTracks-April-Bike-Rides-Summary.jpg?fit=1826%2C1170&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1826,1170\" 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=\"4-30-2021 SportTracks April Bike Rides Summary\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;4-30-2021 SportTracks April Bike Rides Summary&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/4-30-2021-SportTracks-April-Bike-Rides-Summary.jpg?fit=600%2C384&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/4-30-2021-SportTracks-April-Bike-Rides-Summary.jpg?fit=800%2C513&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/4-30-2021-SportTracks-April-Bike-Rides-Summary.jpg?resize=1200%2C769&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"4-30-2021 SportTracks April Bike Rides Summary\" class=\"wp-image-56415\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/4-30-2021-SportTracks-April-Bike-Rides-Summary.jpg?w=1826&amp;ssl=1 1826w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/4-30-2021-SportTracks-April-Bike-Rides-Summary.jpg?resize=600%2C384&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/4-30-2021-SportTracks-April-Bike-Rides-Summary.jpg?resize=800%2C513&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/4-30-2021-SportTracks-April-Bike-Rides-Summary.jpg?resize=640%2C410&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/4-30-2021-SportTracks-April-Bike-Rides-Summary.jpg?resize=1536%2C984&amp;ssl=1 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Two maintenance actions, 1 on my Canyon Endurace and 1 on my Lynskey R300 bikes. Both bike chains waxed. One flat tire 4\/19\/2021 on the Lynskey R300. I returned home to fix the flat since the ride just started.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Canyon Endurace now has 21,687 miles and the Lynskey R300 has 3,887 miles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My chance to add more miles to April fell victim rain. Starting early this morning my home weather station recorded 3.48&#8243; of rain as of this post. I needed 8 more miles for April to exceed July 2020&#8217;s 922 miles. <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2021\/04\/30\/stymied-by-much-needed-rain-april-bike-rides-review\/\"><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":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bicycling-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4tok-eFW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56416","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=56416"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56418,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56416\/revisions\/56418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}