Ventured to Liberty County on today’s bike ride. I don’t often ride in Liberty County but on today’s route “May Park Community Center – Huffman” I rode about 200 yards into the county before making a u-turn on FM 1960 to begin the trip back to Kingwood. October 9th, 2019, was the last time I rode this route. Not sure why it took me so long to ride it again but I will blame it on time, weather, and forgetfulness.

I began the ride at 11:41 AM as the temperature reached 80 degrees at my home weather station. The sky started to clear making for a great day to ride a bike. I chose the Canyon Endurace CF SLX bike to travel today’s 41.89 miles (6/10’s of a mile farther than October’s ride). How the weather looked while I biked: start 80 (75% humidity, 71.2 dew point), mostly cloudy, wind E 7 mph. Finish 85 (58% humidity, 68.8 dew point), a few clouds, wind S 7 mph. My choice of clothing: shorts, long sleeve jersey (didn’t need it but I wore it anyway), and a short sleeve jersey.

Bike rides in this direction seem to be harder to get my average speed above 14.0 mph. I think there are more starts and stops plus not many long uninterrupted stretches. Once I got my average to 14.0 mph I held it there until returning to Kingwood. I made one stop during the ride for ice at the store at the corner of Wolf Road and FM 2100. Now that temperature is warming up one water bottle doesn’t last the ride. I tried to be careful of what I touched going in and a store employee opened the door to let me out.

My timing was good to be biking east on FM 1960 when the Amtrak train passed. Watch the video to see more highlights from the bike ride.

2020 biking outpaces any previous year so far. I think the primary difference is the Zwift miles. Prior to this year I rarely rode indoors during the winter. This chart shows 2020 versus previous years.

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