A couple of weeks ago I wrote about seeing a big fish swallowing a mailbox but I didn’t get any evidence. Today’s bike ride video has the evidence. I almost rode by the fish but I circled back and put him on camera. To do all of this I left on the bike ride at 9:23 AM riding my Cervelo Caledonia bike following my “New Caney – Roman Forest – Valley Ranch” route. The route goes north along US59 through Porter, New Caney, and Tavola where I ride east to Roman Forest Blvd and begin exploring Roman Forest. Lots of trees and quiet streets as I rode away from the noise of US59. Back before I moved to Kingwood in 1990 biking to Roman Forest from our home in New Caney near Community Drive was a frequent destination, today I don’t ride there as much. Today was the 5th time this year. Today’s 43.6 miles was the longest of the 5 rides. This ride and the previous one included some streets I did not use in the other 3 rides. In Elm Grove village Kingwood I added a couple of streets and in Roman Forest I went east on Roman Forest Blvd. to the Estates at Roman Forest, a relative new bunch of houses. The return to Kingwood followed the usual roads and I finished at 1:13 PM.
The weather was friendly for today’s bike ride with light winds and decent humidity. It was 85 degrees at the start and 93 at the finish but the sun didn’t feel as intense. Today’s Space City Weather email headline, “Houston has passed the historical “peak” of summer heating” might explain that feeling. The email described, “… Based upon the last three decades of weather, the historically warmest time of year for Houston runs from July 29 through August 12. During this approximately two-week period, the city of Houston averages a high temperature of 96 degrees, and a low of 76, at Bush Intercontinental Airport. And if we drill down further, the climatological peak of summer during the last 30 years has come on August 6, which was Saturday.” All of this didn’t mean I was sweat free on the bike ride, just not as intensely heated. I still had salt stains on my gloves and probably on my white arm sleeve but not visible. I drank almost all of the water and ice in my CamelBak by the end of the ride.
Not many gear combinations used according to my AXS.SRAM ride report. The total moving time came in at 3:34:04 and I rode the 35×13 gears for 2:32:33 of that time or 34.2 miles out of 43.6. I changed the RD 24 times.
