It’s not quite summer yet but in June when you start a bike ride around noon expect it to be hot. I started today’s bike ride at 11:43 am biking the “New Caney – Gene Campbell Road” route for a total of 38.06 miles pushing June to 199.8 miles. I should’ve ridden another 2/10’s of mile to make it 200 miles. I am at 20% of my June mileage goal after 6 days. Looks my goal is not out of reach.
The weather during the bicycle ride: start 88 (58% humidity), mostly cloudy, wind S 5 mph. Finish 95 (45% humidity), partly cloudy, wind SE 9 mph.
It was hot and dry enough that I used three water bottles stopping twice to refill it. First refill was at the Shell station on FM 1314 just east of Gene Campbell Road. The second one was at the Valero (soon to be a Circle K according to a sign stuck in the ground at one of the entrances) on Northpark Drive at I-69/US59. I made a rest stop before the Valero station in Oakhurst at the pool/park. I was going to continue south on my usual route after the rest break but I wanted to get water and ice for the rest of the ride. Remembering my water and ice at the Shell in Kingwood not tasting good I changed the route to get to the Valero station.
I was hurrying to get back home since my wife wasn’t feeling too well so I tried keep a good pace. I built my average speed up to 14.5 mph by the time I reached the Grand Parkway overpass on FM 1314 and held it there until cycling through Oakhurst and the rest stop there. After that it dropped to 14.4 mph which I maintained until around 34.5 miles into the ride. This was back in Kingwood where riding is slower. When I finished at 2:50 pm it was 14.1 mph.
The refrigerator saga continues with the expected delivery date of June 7th now bumped to June 20th. The impact is manual ice making for our needs especially bike rides and my wife’s ice water consumption will continue for another 2 weeks. I will buy another ice cube tray to up the production, they are only $1.54 at WalMart. Summer is not a time to run out of ice.
More hot weather on Thursday but maybe I can leave earlier.
SportTracks Bike Ride Summary
