Around Kingwood Bike Ride

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My schedule today overrode my usual bike ride time so I left at 12:09 PM and rode the “Kingwood Streets”. I biked 21.37 miles and the week’s total was 204.43 miles marking the 14th week in a row of 200+ miles. August now stands at 516.58 miles, 65% of the way to my goal. I finished at 1:54 PM in time to see all of the women who were at my wife’s birthday party.

Weather during the bike ride: start 98 (54% humidity, 78.2 dew point), mostly cloudy, wind SW 8 mph. Finish 96 (52% humidity, 75.6 dew point), mostly cloudy, wind W 9 mph. As I got near the end of the ride the sky had some dark clouds and a few rain drops fell after I went inside.

Some of what I saw during the bike ride.

The people were out in Town Center Park today as you can see in the video.

Sunday is a rest day.

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Avoiding Much Needed Rain Bike Ride

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I almost made a mistake biking to the north but before I put on my gloves and helmet I checked the weather radar and saw a patch of rain where my planned route would take me. So I switched to the south and rode the “Atascocita – Walden – Huffman” route. I wanted to ride enough miles to position Saturday’s ride could get me over the 200 mile point for the week. Biking 34.76 miles today did that putting the week’s total at 183.05 miles. Due to a morning conflict I can’t ride the typical 33 miles on Saturday but 20 miles is doable. August now totals 495.2 miles, 62% of my goal. Year to date I am at 5,542 miles.

The ride began at 11:16 AM but the weather wasn’t as hot as the last several days thanks to an early morning rain. Weather during the bike ride: start 89 (74% humidity, 80.0 dew point), partly cloudy, wind variable 6 mph. Finish 91 (68% humidity, 79.1 dew point), mostly cloudy, wind NE 5 mph. The humidity was higher than the other days partly offsetting the lower temperatures.

No video today because I didn’t see anything of interest.

Only one water bottle refill today at the Huffman Chevron where I took a 10 minute break in the shade drinking ice water before finishing the ride about 11 miles later at 2:09 PM

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