The rain stayed around a little longer than expected delaying the start of today’s bike until 12:54 pm. By then the streets were dry, sky starting clear some and the temperature hit 78. I chose the “Kingwood – SH 242 – Kingwood” route so I could ride into the north wind at the beginning of the ride. Just kidding!! The real reason was to bike 35+ miles and actually biked 38.12 miles. This moves May to 144.36 miles getting closer to my 660 mile goal for the month. The week totals 183.04 miles.

The weather during the bike ride: start 78 (77% humidity), mostly cloudy, wind N 9 mph. Finish 80 (67% humidity), mostly cloudy, wind N 13 mph.

With the cloudy sky I opted to wear shorts and a long sleeve jersey because the wind had a chill in from the cool front that brought the overnight rain. I almost changed to a short sleeve jersey before I left but I am glad I stuck with my original setup.

9 mph wind on the way to SH 242 tried to keep me from improving my average speed. But I was able to increase it  from 13.6 mph when I started north on the I-69/US59 service road from Knox Street to 14.4 mph when turning west on SH 242 for the short ride to SpeedSportz Drive. At that point the wind became much more friendly as a tailwind. I continued to work on increasing the average and hit 15.0 mph by the u-turn under I-69/US59 at Kingwood Drive. I must have used extra energy because I needed to stop for a bottle refill at the New Caney Mobile station at FM 1485. Also my stomach was feeling empty too.

No other cyclists along the route today. I finished the ride at 3:37 pm.

Sunday could heat up with a forecast high of 87 but today was supposed to hit 85 and it didn’t make it yet. No rain expected. I will ride and try to bump the week’s total to 200+ miles.

SportTracks Bike Ride Summary