{"id":33805,"date":"2016-08-08T15:06:48","date_gmt":"2016-08-08T20:06:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/?p=33805"},"modified":"2016-08-08T15:06:48","modified_gmt":"2016-08-08T20:06:48","slug":"bike-race-withdraw-so-i-went-biking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2016\/08\/08\/bike-race-withdraw-so-i-went-biking\/","title":{"rendered":"Bike Race Withdraw So I Went Biking"},"content":{"rendered":"

Great ride to start the week leaving home at 10:25 on the “Kingwood – Hare Cook Road – Kingwood” route. I started a little earlier than usual thanks to no bike races to watch. Last week was bike race watching overload and this week is the opposite. I rode 44.44 miles<\/strong> under scattered clouds and a light south breeze. The temperature was 89 when I started and 97 at the finish (2:08).<\/p>\n

The ride was uneventful which is a good thing. I stopped for a rest break at the Huffman Chevron at 33.2 miles<\/strong> at 12:42. I went inside to buy some blue PowerAde but the fountain dispenser was out so I drank good ice water with a Clif bar and some snack crackers.<\/p>\n

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While I was resting a freight train that had been stopped west of the FM2100 crossing started blowing a warning horn as it move slowly through the crossing. I thought it would gain speed as it went but it didn’t taking many minutes to clear the crossing. About 20 minutes later another train heading west passed through at a good clip. This is unusual because almost all the trains travel to the east. I think the slow moving train pulled onto the siding east of FM2100 to allow the other train to pass. May there is a problem with the west tracks to the south in Crosby.<\/p>\n

I left the Chevron station after 2:15 for the 11+ miles home. The wind was favorable for a change and I was able to improve my overall average speed to 15.0 mph.<\/p>\n

With today’s ride August miles moved up to 250 miles, leaving 550 miles to reach my goal. I checked my ranking at the National Bike Challenge and I am at 807 not counting today’s ride. Big drop from Saturday. The weekend riders were busy. I hope to move up with this week’s riding. More hot and dry weather tomorrow. No bike races to watch so I should be able to ride earlier than usual.<\/p>\n

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Great ride to start the week leaving home at 10:25 on the “Kingwood – Hare Cook Road – Kingwood” route. I started a little earlier than usual thanks to no bike races to watch. Last week was bike race watching …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[22],"tags":[5196,1424,4699],"class_list":["post-33805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bike-ride","tag-kingwood-hare-cook-road-kingwood","tag-road","tag-stradalli-rp-14-carbon"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4tok-8Nf","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33805\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}