{"id":11530,"date":"2012-01-23T16:57:21","date_gmt":"2012-01-23T22:57:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/?p=11530"},"modified":"2012-01-23T16:57:21","modified_gmt":"2012-01-23T22:57:21","slug":"a-sea-of-large-yellow-boxes-january-23rd-bike-ride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2012\/01\/23\/a-sea-of-large-yellow-boxes-january-23rd-bike-ride\/","title":{"rendered":"A Sea of Large Yellow Boxes – January 23rd Bike Ride"},"content":{"rendered":"

I did not bike yesterday. It was too dreary and the wind kept blowing at 23+ mph. I was out today though. The wind died down to 6.9 mph from the NE and the clouds thinned out to mostly cloudy to overcast at times. The weather forecast was a little optimistic on the temperature reaching 72 with 69 at the start of the ride and 70 at the end. I stuck to my guideline and rode into the wind at the start and the tailwind was nice on the way back. I paid the price speed wise until the turnaround at 12 miles or so. I was averaging under 15 mph up to that point. Tomorrow afternoon rain storms are supposed to roll in so I will have to get out ride earlier than today.<\/p>\n

For a change I guessed right on my attire.: long sleeve jersey, leg warmers and windbreaker. It was warm enough that half finger gloves were comfortable. Add sunscreen and I was all set.<\/p>\n

The 29.89 miles<\/strong> I biked today moved the January total 231.67 miles<\/strong>. I am almost up to December’s 269.41 miles<\/strong>. I looked at my old spreadsheet biking log and learned that my January average miles has been 209<\/strong> for 1988 to 2009. The average speed landed at 15.3 mph which means the leg headed south more than compensated for the slower northbound one. I sped along with 80.6 RPM cadence which allowed a max speed of 23.1 mph. Towards the end of my ride I got to observe the school buses shuttling students. I did not realize the fleet activity for this. It was a sea of large yellow boxes on the road. I did not see other bikers.<\/p>\n

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1-23-2012 Bike Ride Data and Route Map<\/p><\/div>\n

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1-23-2012 Home Weather Station End<\/p><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I did not bike yesterday. It was too dreary and the wind kept blowing at 23+ mph. I was out today though. The wind died down to 6.9 mph from the NE and the clouds thinned out to mostly cloudy …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[22],"tags":[2195,2185,3109,1424],"class_list":["post-11530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bike-ride","tag-bike-ride-report","tag-motobecane-le-champion","tag-new-caney-valley-ranch","tag-road"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4tok-2ZY","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11530\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}