{"id":37426,"date":"2017-11-06T14:11:45","date_gmt":"2017-11-06T20:11:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/?p=37426"},"modified":"2017-11-06T14:11:45","modified_gmt":"2017-11-06T20:11:45","slug":"surprise-encounter-at-stripes-bike-ride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2017\/11\/06\/surprise-encounter-at-stripes-bike-ride\/","title":{"rendered":"Surprise Encounter at Stripes Bike Ride"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Central Standard Time has returned. It was daylight earlier today and I started the &#8220;New Caney &#8211; Roman Forest &#8211; Valley Ranch&#8221; bike ride earlier than usual at 10:16 AM. By then the summer like weather had warmed to 82 degrees (78% humidity) under a partly cloudy sky. No need for a long sleeve jersey on this bike ride so shorts and a short sleeve jersey were the attire. The wind was from the SW at 9 mph (or higher) pushing me to Roman Blvd. with less effort than I expected. The loop through Roman Forest was generally wind neutral so I rode at a good pace.<\/p>\n<p>Once I was back to I-69\/US59 for the ride back to Kingwood the headwind battled me most of the way.<\/p>\n<p>The stop at the Stripes station at FM 1314 was long enough to refill my water bottle and walk out the back door. As I came out the door a man followed and asked me about my Stradalli. He knew a lot about the bike and we chatted a few minutes. I was surprised to have someone out of the blue talking about my bike. I got back on the Stradalli and headed to Briar Tree, Oakhurst and back to Kingwood.<\/p>\n<p>Riding through Kingwood I had a tailwind most of the way. I finished the bike ride at 1:21 PM. The temperature was 87 (61% humidity) which is hot for November. Several records were set over the weekend in Houston. The weather forecast calls for a cool front Tuesday afternoon so I will need to ride early.<\/p>\n<p>I adjusted my goal for the month to 360 miles, what I rode last November. As of this ride I am at 137 miles for the month.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.strava.com\/activities\/1264188332\/embed\/23f92a8d1c7d89db2d7c0a6f891e2f7e9ea60a30\" width=\"590\" height=\"405\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"width: 1px; min-width: 80%; height: 700px; border: none;\" src=\"https:\/\/rwgps-embeds.com\/embeds?type=trip&amp;id=18899105&amp;sampleGraph=true\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Central Standard Time has returned. It was daylight earlier today and I started the &#8220;New Caney &#8211; Roman Forest &#8211; Valley Ranch&#8221; bike ride earlier than usual at 10:16 AM. By then the summer like weather had warmed to 82 <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2017\/11\/06\/surprise-encounter-at-stripes-bike-ride\/\"><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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[22],"tags":[4342,1424,4699],"class_list":["post-37426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bike-ride","tag-new-caney-roman-forest-valley-ranch","tag-road","tag-stradalli-rp-14-carbon"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4tok-9JE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37426","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=37426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37426\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}