Heating Up the Air – June 6th Bike Ride
With summer officially arriving in about 2 weeks the temperature now seems like it arrived today. As I write this at 3:30 the home weather station reports 98.4 degrees outside. During my ride it range 87 to 95. The weather forecast shows a 30% chance of rain but the partly cloudy sky does not appear to agree. With the chance of rain increasing to 60% tomorrow I thought I should go for a little longer ride today so I visited the grass farms north of Crosby and south of Huffman. This ended up at 37.19 miles. Some of the roads do not have stores or places to get water so I took my CamelBak and with the heat and sun it came in handy. I enjoyed cold water until I got to Huffman around 25.7 miles into the ride.
The calm wind did not factor into the ride but I would have liked a little to help cool. Also this route has some long stretches without much shade, particularly when the roads split the grass farms. Along FM2100 going south I think I saw what looked like a young coyote, a victim of a car or truck. The ride went as planned without any incidents. I did stay a little longer at the Huffman Chevron enjoying the shade and light breeze.
Overall I averaged 15.5 mph with a max speed of 19.9 mph. I double checked this at Garmin Connect and it agreed. I thought I went faster than that but maybe I held a steady speed rather than a high one. 79.1 RPM was my average cadence. Mileage: 102.39 this week, 176.48 for June, 2966.86 YTD. Link to RideWithGPS.com.
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