Community Drive – Cumberland – Oakhurst Riding My Lynskey Helix

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I managed to get today’s bike ride started before 9 AM but just barely rolling out at 8:58 AM. The heat advisory chain continues and I wanted to finish by noon but I missed that by 4 minutes. Today I rode north to Community Drive, then turned south through Valley Ranch and onto FM 1314. I stayed on FM 1314 to the northwest to Cumberland Blvd. where I made the u-turn and continued back to Old Sorters Road with a brief stop at the Circle K at Sorters Road to top off my water bottle for the 12 miles to the finish. Briar Tree, Oakhurst and Kings Manor got me back into Kingwood. Nothing out of the ordinary during the ride until a Houston Fire truck with lights flashing and siren blaring came towards me on Rockmead Drive. Not sure why the fire truck was taking this route but maybe because of a road closure at Kingwood Drive and Loop 494 due to construction.

Today’s ride followed my Community Drive – Cumberland – Oakhurst route but probably varied a little from streets on the previous rides. I checked the ride map from the June 21st ride to refresh which roads to ride but made a change from Eagle Drive north of TX 99 to Community Drive to Loop 494 and then the TX 99 west bound frontage road back to US59/I-69. From the rides history the most used bike is the Lynskey Helix which I rode today.

7-19-2023 SportTracks Rides History Community Drive-Cumberland-Oakhurst
7-19-2023 SportTracks Rides History Community Drive-Cumberland-Oakhurst

Weather conditions: Start 86 degrees, 74% humidity, dew point 76.8, mostly cloudy, wind S 7 mph; Finish 94 degrees, 52% humidity, dew point 73.6, a few clouds, wind variable 6 mph. Wind remains light for my bike rides. In the shade it is strong enough to provide some cooling effect.

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Fruit Salad Assembly Slowed The Start. Atascocita – Walden – Huffman Route

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I was slow getting started on today’s bike ride. It took a little longer than I expected to make a fruit salad for my dominoes group that meets tonight. Stage 16 of the Tour de France was on as I ate breakfast until I paused it to watch when I got back. I didn’t expect the results. I rode my Cervelo Caledonia bike starting at 9:02 AM, the first ride after 9 AM in awhile. The ride went south and east to FM 2100 and turned back to Kingwood generally following my Atascocita – Walden – Huffman route. I saw other cyclists with a group of 5 riding west over Lake Houston as I went east. I’ve seen some them on other rides. I was back home at 11:52 AM before the heat ramped up.

7-18-2023 SportTracks 2023 Rides Atascocita-Walden-Huffman
7-18-2023 SportTracks 2023 Rides Atascocita-Walden-Huffman

This ride incorporated a few different streets from the usual ones. I rode on more greenbelt trail at the start, took a short northerly loop on Woodland Hills Drive, circled on Rocky Woods in Kings Forest, and rode a loop by the golf course in Kingwood Greens. When I got to FM 2100 I decided to not go south to Spanish Cove Drive because of the extra streets earlier.

Heat continues to bake the Houston area and many parts of Texas. Yesterday evening around 6 PM my home weather station hit 100 degrees. It wasn’t that hot for today’s bike ride but it was in the forecast for later in the day. The spread between the temperature and humidity was 12 when I start which helps some. Weather while I biked: Start 86 degrees, 74% humidity, dew point 76.7, mostly cloudy, wind SW 7 mph; Finish 91 degrees, 59% humidity, dew point 74.3, partly cloudy, wind SW 9 mph. Light wind helped my legs.

Roads Change Over 4 Years, Some Arrive, Some Leave

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It was a rest day for the tour de France but not for me. For some time I have kicked around biking on the New Caney – Roman Forest – Splendora route. I’m not sure why I waited until today from June 7th, 2019, to ride it, the last time I rode the route. Back then I wrote this post about my ride which might shed some light on the long absence. Maybe it was the dog chase from a ride on Tram Road before June 7th. Today’s bike route mostly followed the June 7th roads but I made a few changes because during that time new roads came along. Leaving Kingwood followed different streets, navigating Tavola was different because the streets I biked today didn’t exist in 2019. I also altered getting to Roman Forest Blvd. from Magnolia Bend. Once I was on Tram Road the roads were the same until the construction area on the US59/I-69 service road at SH 242. To avoid the barriers I walked across broken concrete behind the barriers for about 25 feet to reach an unopened road passing close to Big River Water Park and SH 242 west of US59/I-69. From there the roads were familiar all the way back to Kingwood though not exactly the same ones from June 2019. The 2019 ride was 46.89 miles and today I rode 46.61 miles. There was a time gap between rides prior to June 7th but clumps of rides in 2014, 2013, and 2012. Maybe ones earlier than those years too, before I used a GPS bike computer. My average speeds decreased over the years. I getting old.

7-17-2023 SportTracks Rides History New Caney-Roman Forest-Splendora
7-17-2023 SportTracks Rides History New Caney-Roman Forest-Splendora

To celebrate the bike ride I wore a new jersey with an Egyptian theme. I rode my Canyon Endurace bike but not the same one as 2019. I rolled out at 8:40 AM and finished at 12:40 AM. I stopped under TX 99 on Valley Ranch Parkway to eat a bagel and get out of the sun for a few minutes. I needed the bagel to power me and the rest to refresh my legs.

The wind was modest today, cooling more than hindering me as I went south. The humidity backed off some too. Weather conditions: 85 degrees, 75% humidity, dew point 76.4, a few clouds, wind S 4 mph; Finish 93 degrees, 55% humidity, dew point 74.2, a few clouds, wind W 8 mph.

7-17-2023 Strava Ride Summary New Caney-Roman Forest-Splendora
7-17-2023 Strava Ride Summary New Caney-Roman Forest-Splendora