Galveston Bike Around The Bay

Bike Around The Bay is a 2 day event. The first day is a 68 mile ride starting at Anahuac just east of Houston and finishes along the Gulf of Mexico with a ferry ride near the end into Galveston. Sunday starts in Galveston and heads back to Baytown.

This is the 2nd time I've done this ride and it's a good one!

Rider count: 1000+
Road Condition: Mostly great! Some chip seal which wasn't bad
Hills: One, an overpass into the peninsula.
Rest Stops: Excellent
Traffic Control: Excellent
Dogs: 0
Flat Tires: 0

Since I haven't had time to get the new Elite frame together I brought the silver Baron. This ride is very fast and although the "Big Silver" isn't quite as fast as the Elite it will get up and go.

The initial east run started out well then slowed as the wind picked up, this was offset on the south then west run to the ferry where it's extremely fast. It's a lot of fun riding along the gulf at high speed. I started burning out with about 15 miles to go but kept at it and finished well. The Garmin started screwing up and began auto pausing then starting which screwed up the final reading, the data after the ferry ride in Galveston was pretty much unusable. I defaulted it Saturday night and it was fine on Sunday

I finished first to the ferry then me and seven others made the first ferry trip over. I couldn't catch several of them and finished a decent 5th. The way I felt if I can beat em to the ferry that's good enough, trying to get sustainable speed going through Galveston is nearly impossible.

The rest of the day was spent having a few beers hanging around the pier trying to recuperate as you can see in this photo :)


Miles: 68 (estimated)
Time: 3 hours something (estimated)
Climb: 230 ft (the overpass)
Temperature: 69 degree start 89 finish
Heart Rate: 158 bpm average
Speed: 21.5 mph average (estimated)






Sunday was another story, after looking at the weather radar a large storm front was coming in from the gulf. For a while it looked like we all might avoid the rain and did for about 25 miles, from then until about 15 miles to go it was rainy and windy although judging by the storms after the ride it looks like I got lucky. This was the first ride I've done in the rain and it wasn't too bad.

I almost backed out at the beginning, felt like giving up in the middle but am glad I finished.

Miles: 74.41
Time: 4 hours 21 minutes
Climb: 925 ft (all overpasses)
Temperature: 69 degree start 77 finish
Heart Rate: 114 bpm average
Speed: 17.1 mph average