For a change no rain on the weather radar as I started the bike ride. The ride began at 9:48 AM and finished at 12:20 PM. Riding my Canyon Endurace bike I set out on my “Atascocita – Walden – FM 2100” route for the 10th time in 2021. Today I biked 33.12 miles, the typical distance. I’m off to a good start for the week now totaling 81.44 miles. July is over the halfway point to my 800 mile goal with 422.92 miles. I am ahead of the pace to reach my goal by 87 miles (800/31=25.8 miles per day times 13 days = 335.48 miles).
7-13-2021 YTD bike Rides Summary Today’s Route
The weather summary while i was biking.
I captured a local legend on today’s bike ride according to Strava. I wondered when this segment would show up since I ride it on most of the southerly bike rides. (click the image to go to my Strava activity)
FORT WORTH, Texas — A child riding his bicycle Saturday in Fort Worth was struck by a pickup truck and taken to the hospital, police said. A person of interest has been identified, police said.
Officers responded about 7:39 p.m. to the 3200 block of Strong Avenue for a hit-and-run investigation.
Detectives determined a person was driving the pickup eastbound when it hit a child on his bike, police said.
AUSTIN (KXAN) — Native Austinite Brian Nunnery has spent the past 10 years as a permanent bike commuter. He says a decade of time spent solely riding a bike to work has revealed evolutions in Austin’s cycling mobility — as well as some personal frustrations with city biking infrastructure.
“I think that cyclists are often second class — you know, we have a transportation system that is designed with cars being the dominant class in the social, almost caste system of transportation types,†he said. “I think if you want to understand what systemic injustice means, ride a bike full time. Because …
Police are investigating after a man on a bicycle was killed Monday morning after being struck by a tractor-trailer in Kilgore.
Officers responded after 911 calls at around 10:20 a.m. about a wreck on Texas 42 South near the private entrance to Brookshires, Kilgore police said in an afternoon post on the department’s Facebook page. A preliminary investigation shows the bicyclist had entered the roadway as the tractor-trailer was headed south.
There’s been a lot of bicycle theft showing up in my Next Door feed over the last year. Global pandemics with their concomitant economic hardships have put all kinds of strain on people. But this brazen act takes the cake. Robbers literally broke through the front door of The Peddler Bike Shop in Hyde Park area of Austin, Texas with a probably stolen truck. I happened to see it on the website for the news station where I get my weather, and I was aghast. It is the closet shop to me, and I’ve been going there longer than any shops here. I also know the owner a bit. (Ironically, my first real bike that I ever bought myself I got from here, was stolen on Xmas Eve maybe 10 years ago.) This …
Texas Biking from Twitter
"Options other than driving… means confronting the fact that many parts of the surrounding neighborhoods are hard to traverse on bike or on foot." https://t.co/nnZEblVCMk
It's Monday, let's taco bout it later though. We love the rain but would love some 🌞 to be able to get outside and stretch our legs! How was your weekend? Ride any bikes?
New Event ARR All Level Ride – Austin, TX The Austin Mountain Bikers Meetup Group
***2021 Protocol for ride- Please wear a mask when meeting up for announcements. We will break the groups into 10 or less people and maintain social distancing for the r… https://t.co/Diod4U1BDW
Riding west on Hamblen Road I looked to my right above the trees at the dark sky. Not again, another rainy Monday. I was on my way to the Spring Creek Greenway for today’s bike ride. A person commented after I rode the greenway the last time that a new section opened to the west. I wanted to bike there and check it out. I left home at 9:54 AM riding my Canyon Endurace bike. I shortened the beginning of the ride anticipating some extra miles if this new section was there.
As I entered the I-69/US59 trailhead the dark clouds to the west looked threatening. I hoped to ride to Jesse Jones Park before it rained. Arriving at Jesse Jones Park the rain held off and the sky to the west looked less threatening. Maybe I missed the rain. Back home it rain as I found out when I finished at 2:02 PM and my home weather station recorded .18″ of rain. Not stopping on the greenway the dark clouds and wind dropped the temperature a few degrees. Around mile marker 4 to marker 5 light rain fell but with all of the trees not much landed on me.
I kept on biking through the Carter Park trailhead, John Pundt Park, and Dennis Johnston Park on the way to I-45 in search of the new trail. The greenway was dry except for a few low spot where puddles formed. Passing mile marker 15 I started looking for signs of the new section. My expectations drooped when I saw the sign saying the trail ended in one mile. Watch the video to see what I found out.
Not many people on the greenway today. A dozen or so bikers and maybe half that number walking or jogging. I passed two bikers on the way west and said hello. Later on the way back I stopped at John Pundt Park for a rest stop. I planned on staying 15 minutes but it lasted longer. As I was getting ready to leave the same two bikers pulled under the cover and got off their bikes. We chatted for a minute or two before I said goodbye and rode away.
After that I didn’t see many bikers. At the I-69/US59 trailhead I stopped and took this picture.
7-12-2021 Bike Ride Spring Creek Greenway
The 6 cars at the trailhead when I entered had diminished to just 2. The last half mile to the trailhead had more puddles than when I started so the rain that missed me fell there.
Normally I bike the greenway once a month but this month I rode it twice. Below is a summary of the rides there this year. The rides less than 48 miles did not go all the way to I-45.
With the cooler weather and maybe the threat of rain I set some personal records and other notable results according to Strava. The image below only shows a partial list of the medals. (Click on the image to got my Strava activity)
With all of the rain this week I needed 30 miles for a 200 mile week. Scratching my head for a different route I put together a bunch of streets I don’t think I biked before in this combination. I wanted to stay west of Lake Houston too. The route name attempts to cover the area I biked in, “Kingwood – Eagle Springs – Walden – Atascocita”. At the start I wasn’t sure this route would produce the necessary miles but I ended up biking 33.11 miles. Below is a summary of this week’s bike rides. Seven weeks in a row of 200+ miles.The maintenance on Tuesday was when I waxed the chain on my Canyon Endurace bike.
7-11-2021 Week Bike Rides Summary
Today I rode my Lynskey R300 bike. It now has 4,650 miles on it. July totals 341.48 miles, 43% of my 800 mile goal. Below shows year progressions YTD miles comparing 2011 to 2021. I trail 2020 by 163 miles, the same as yesterday.
7-11-2021 Strava Year Progressions YTD Miles
I expected the weather to be hotter than it was. Mostly cloudy skies must’ve kept the heat at bay. Weather conditions summary: start 81 (75% humidity, 72 dew point), mostly cloudy, wind N 8 mph; finish 84 (78% humidity, 76.9 dew point), mostly cloudy, wind SE 4 mph.
