I waited for the temperature to go up a few degrees and finally started the bike ride at 12:43. I needed a long sleeve jersey again (I am a temperature wimp) under my short sleeve jersey to get me through the shady areas where the north 8 mph breeze made it feel chilly. Bicycling on the “Atascocita – Walden – Huffman” route I rode 31.66 miles which put me at 7,009 miles for the year. (Yesterday I gave the wrong YTD mileage.) It was 71 degrees at the start and 73 when I finished at 2:55. I was chilly and glad to get off the bike.

Before I biked to Huffman I decided not to stop for a rest break at the Huffman Chevron because I would cool down and then need to build up my body heat again. I really made this decision when I left my snacks at home. At the 20.2 mile point I bicycled past the Chevron station around 2:07 but no one rushed out and waved at me; I didn’t expect anyone to do that.

One of the main reasons I like living in southeast Texas is the extended biking weather. If I lived a couple of hundred miles to the north the biking weather would not be as hospitable for me.

Yesterday I joined the Wahoo Fitness club on Strava and was surprised to find I was #50 in the top 100 for miles biked this week. As I write this post my miles from today are not added dropping me to 93rd. It will be interesting to see how I rank in this group.

I was thinking about biking the Polk County Crime Stoppers Bike Ride tomorrow but I decided to not go. Instead I will stay home and watch the University of Cincinnati Bearcats football game. That way I don’t have to get up earlier, drive 50 miles and then become chilly waiting for the temperature to get up to 70. Maybe if the football was later in the day (it starts at 11 AM) I would ride. Also the $45 cost for the ride is a tough price to pay to ride 42 miles.

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