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I wanted to get started early today but I did not get out of the driveway until 10:14. The timing turned out to be good. Later on as I biked north on the US59 service road and stopped at the North Park Drive traffic light I experienced a touch of celebrity. As I stood waiting for the light to change a car pulled up on my right preparing to turn right onto North Park. The driver put his window down and asked how far I planned on riding today. I said that I expected to bike 30 to 32 miles. He then looked at me and asked if I was Texbiker. This took me by surprise as I think I live out of any spotlight. When the light changed he drove off. Sometimes I wear my Texbiker.net jersey but not today so this man must know of me by either visiting the website or maybe seeing me biking with my jersey on. I am not sure how he knew but wearing sunglasses today did not maintain my cover.<\/p>\n
Otherwise the ride went as planned. The weather accommodated my biking with scattered clouds, a light breeze from the north, 82 to 87 degree temperature and 57% humidity. The humidity probably causes the most problems because when I stop the perspiration pours off my arms and head. Sometimes while biking I will dip my chin down on my right side and I see many drops fall to the ground. When I stopped at the Chevron station in New Caney to refill my waterbottle I used several paper towels to soak up the sweat and the blow dryer in the restroom provided a short relief but not for long once I headed north on FM1485 the sweat came back. Later on I stopped at the Valero station on FM1314 to repeat the process except their restroom does not have a blow dryer. It did have industrial wiping towels because the towel dispenser was empty. The little rubber-like pieces in the paper made wiping the sweat more difficult.<\/p>\n
So far May riding is going well riding each of the 4 days. Today I rode 35.2 miles<\/strong> in 2:17:02. Top speed hit 20.2 mph which does not seem to support my 15.4 mph average speed. Average cadence dropped from yesterday to 80.2 RPM. May miles stand at 128.91<\/strong>. Miles this week includes one day from April and total 159.09<\/strong>. Year to date I biked 2064.58 miles<\/strong>. I thought my average speed would be higher since I rode at 17.2 mph for 25.47 miles. The table below shows the breakdown speeds and the distance.<\/p>\n [iframe http:\/\/connect.garmin.com\/activity\/174730234 98% 725]<\/p>\n An alternate data view at RideWithGPS.com<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n