A basic bike ride today with no racing distraction to delay the start. The Cervelo Caledonia and I rolled away at 9:23 AM to ride the “Atascocita – Walden – Huffman” route. I hoped to ride far enough to get the week’s total to 150 miles and I did biking 33.60 miles by the time I finished at 11:54 AM. Earlier in the year most of my rides didn’t start before 11:54 AM.
Checking SportTracks this route is probably the one I bike the most often, 11 times so far in 2022.
6-2-2022 YTD Bike Rides Atascocita-Walden-Huffman
The wind behaved by getting no stronger than 10 mph and the temperature was less than 90 when I finished. Weather conditions: start 79 (humidity 89%, dew point 75), mostly cloudy, wind NW 8 mph; finish 87 (humidity 67%, dew point 75), mostly cloudy, wind NW 10 mph. I may start using my Camelbak with the temperature getting close to 90 or above.
The AXS.SRAM.com ride report highlights: total moving time 2:26:31, 25 RD shifts, 35×13 riding time 1:25:17 (21.1 miles), 35×15 riding time 40:16 (8.5 miles). The light wind allowed me to use the 35×13 gears more.
6-2-2022 Strava Atascocita-Walden-Huffman Data Summary
A new survey on bikeability ranks San Antonio No. 30 in a list of the top 50 cities in the U.S.
San Antonio has a bikeability score of 45. It has 0.2 percent of workers who commute by bicycle compared to the average city’s 0.5 percent, with 0.7 bike shops per 100,000 people and 0.8 percent bike trails per 100,000 people.
The study was released by Clever, a real estate data company, and analyzed data from the U.S. Census Bureau, U.S. Department of Transportation, U.S. National Centers for Environmental Information, Walk Score, Rails-to-Trails Conservancy, Vision Zero Network, Google Trends, and Yelp.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, the West is best when it comes to bike-friendly cities — one-third of the …
ohn "Jack" Burton Kendrick died in the home he loved in Fredericksburg, Texas, May 28, 2022. He was born in Denton, Texas on June 22, 1942, to Murray and Lura Kendrick. "Jack," as everyone called him, had a happy childhood growing up in Denton with his sister Karen, surrounded by the creative energy that comes from being raised by parents who were immersed in an artistic community.
He graduated from the University of Texas in Austin in 1965, and then moved to New York City where he was a copywriter for the Ted Bates advertising agency. He was a New York ad-man during the heyday of the original "Madmen" era. His most remembered advertising creation from this time was the slogan "How Do You Spell Relief? R-O-L-A-I-D-S." …
… Jack loved the outdoors, and was an avid hiker and backpacker, but he loved being on his bicycle most of all. At one point he was often putting in over a hundred miles a week on his custom-made steel road bike. He was proud to have an unbroken 37-year record of participating in the annual "Hotter than Hell 100" August ride in Wichita Falls, Texas. A lifelong copywriter, he loved any and all word games and puzzles, especially his beloved New York Times crossword.
Jack kept his cheery disposition right up to his last days. He always …
Saturday 6/4/2022 The Bagel Ride 7:00am FREE @progresscoffee & snacks provided by @gfny Waco 7:30am ride start Starts behind Little Woodrow's, 12601 Tech Ridge Blvd, Austin 78753 55mi (89km); a longer option may arise. Store stop at 24mi. Plan accordinglyhttps://t.co/af0tbNTqcv
Canyon Lake Loop Ride! Join the Give 3 Feet organization, other cycling clubs, and us for a fun and hilly ride. There will be SAG support for this ride. Wheels down at 7:30 AM. https://t.co/f4TzqzYjpCpic.twitter.com/EpAdib0YZA
Black History Bike Ride is STOKED to announce that our annual Juneteenth Social Ride is just one month away! Join us at the French Legation Museum at 802 San Marcos St. at … https://t.co/pS8zNKAQX9
No bike races on GCN+ this morning to delay starting my bike ride. I gathered all my bicycling gear, filled the water bottle, woke up the Bolt computer, applied sunscreen, and rolled the Cervelo Caledonia outside. A quick trip to the street to pickup the recycling bin after the trash men emptied it and I was off at 9:34 AM. I noticed the street had a few damp spots and then I felt a few sprinkles. I hoped this wasn’t a sign I would be riding in the rain.
I chose the “Kingwood – SH 242 – Kingwood” route riding north and returning to Kingwood. Usually this route is 35 or 36 miles but today I added a few streets and the bike ride was 39.41 miles. This was the 4th time biking this route in 2022. The rides have been evenly divided on my 2 bikes. My goal for June is 800 miles and this is a good start. So far this week I biked 116.57 miles. A 200+ mile week is possible.
6-1-2022 YTD Bike Rides Summary Kingwood-SH242-Kingwood
From the sprinkles at the beginning I grew more concerned when I reached the US59 northbound frontage road at E. Knox St. The road was wet and muddy but not raining. Also a street sweeper rolled by several minutes before my arrival stirring up the dirt into a nasty mud mess. I was determined to keep riding and prepared to wash the Cervelo when I finished the ride. When I stopped at the cemetery to visit my wife’s grave I saw how mud shows up on a black bike. I thought I rode muddy back roads. The wet frontage road was back to dry by the time I reached FM 1314. From then on no more wet streets but a gray cloud moved around some. I finished the ride at 12:44 PM and washed the Cervelo as expected.
While heading west on E. Knox Street at the feed store a large male peacock was strutting through the parking lot making loud sounds. I turned back to record him but I missed it due to the GoPro on/off mistake.
For some reason I got messed up recording video on the GoPro. I thought I turned it off when actually turning it on. Normally I record 10 to 15 minutes of the ride but today I recorded about 45 minutes, killing the GoPro’s battery before the end of the ride. It gave out in Valley Ranch, I think. I missed recording the rare cyclist on Loop 494 at TX 99.
Other than the sprinkles and muddy wet road the weather was typical. Humidity was higher than the temperature at the start making it seem warmer than it was. Weather at the start and finish: start 81 (humidity 87%, dew point 77), mostly cloudy, wind S 7 mph; finish 89 (humidity 64%, dew point 75), mostly cloudy, wind SE 10 mph gusts 18 mph. I thought the wind would stay below 10 mph but on the way back to Kingwood it felt stronger which must’ve been the 18 mph gusts.
AXS.SRAM.com ride report shows the overall moving time was 2:54:07 and a total elapsed time of 3:10:03. I stopped at the Exxon station in Porter on the way back to refill my water bottle with ice and water accounting for some of the time difference. 47 RD shifts is higher than normal. I rode 1:39:40 (25.2 miles) in the 35×13 gears and 52:57 (10.2 miles) using the 35×15 gears. The rest of the time was in the other gears. Average power was 86 watts and the max was 413 watts.
6-1-2022 Strava Kingwood-SH 242-Kingwood Data Summary
A driver fatally struck a bicyclist late Monday night in west Houston, according to authorities.
Officers responded around 10:15 p.m. to the 6100 block of Westheimer Road near Greenridge Drive and found the man in the roadway and the driver still at the scene, HPD Sgt. David Rose said. The bicyclist was transported to a local hospital where he was pronounced dead.
Witnesses told investigators the victim was attempting to cross the street with …
Sajid Barajas, 47, was pronounced dead on scene. The driver fled on foot, police said.
Houston police close South Cesar Chavez Boulevard as they investigate a hit-and-run collision that left a cyclist dead Monday, May 30, 2022.
Houston police are searching for a driver who fled on foot after hitting and killing a man riding a bicycle early Monday morning in the East End.
The rider, later identified as 47-year-old Sajid Barajas, was pedaling along South Cesar Chavez Boulevard near Polk Street around 2:15 a.m. when the driver of a Nissan Altima struck him from behind at a "high rate of speed," according to the Houston Police Department. Witnesses who saw the hit told investigators that the Altima driver kept going for a moment before pulling into a warehouse driveway and fleeing on foot, leaving the car behind. Investigators later determined the Altima was stolen. …
HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — A driver could face charges for hitting and killing a man riding a bike in west Houston, according to police.
Houston police said the bicyclist was trying to cross the road in the 6100 block of Westheimer near Greenridge around 10:15 p.m. when he was hit by the driver of a white sedan.
"According to witnesses, he was traveling across the roadway, which is incredibly dangerous," Sgt. David Rose said. "We’ve worked many fatals on this particular stretch of Westheimer."
Investigators are looking into exactly what led up to the deadly crash. Police said a number of witnesses gave different accounts of what happened.
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Prologue: 00:00
Route Map: 00:47
Warming up with the group before Fishcreek: 02:12
Fishcreek Blvd – The open Road: 16:32
Heading West on FM 1097 across Lake Conroe in Conroe, Texas: 39:02
Southbound on FM1097 towards Montgomery, TX: 47:54
