One of my preferences on a route minimizes duplicating the same street on the outbound and inbound ride. Sometimes that can happen but today’s route includes a lot of streets going both ways. There is nothing wrong with this but I want to vary my routes to keep them fresh. With the number of rides I do coming up with a new route is not easy as I have mentioned before. The route for today falls into the repetition category with one little exception when I get close to Aerobic Drive in Atascocita South. Instead of turning left at one point I turned right and relied on my sense of direction to get me to Aerobic Drive. I just love that street name.<\/p>\n
So my 30.69 mile<\/strong> ride today would fall in the ordinary category. No police cars gathered, no crowd of bicyclists, just a warm 92 degrees under scattered clouds with a 7 mph variable breeze. Humidity was high enough to draw plenty perspiration from my body. When I got home my weight showed a 3.6 pound loss, mostly fluid. When I stopped in Huffman to refill my waterbottle I sat on the curb in the shade and the water ran off my elbows so much that it wet the concrete to make a sizable spot. After a short rest drinking plenty of ice water I got back on the road. It did not seem quite so hot going across Lake Houston on FM1960 with the breeze helping out. Once I turned onto Pinehurst Trail the shade trees provided cover from the sun. The only other bicyclist I saw was on W. Lake Houston Parkway bridge over the river. He rode the opposite direction.<\/p>\n Ride highlights: 15.3 mph average speed, 22.6 mph top speed, 80.8 RPM average cadence, 2:00:02 riding time, 25:18 time stopped. Mileage updates: 93.28<\/strong> this week, 824.35<\/strong> in May, 2760.02<\/strong> YTD. I think 824.35 is a record for one month and there is still one day left. For alternate view of the ride map and data RideWithGPS.com<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n [iframe http:\/\/connect.garmin.com\/activity\/183747178 98% 725]<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" One of my preferences on a route minimizes duplicating the same street on the outbound and inbound ride. Sometimes that can happen but today’s route includes a lot of streets going both ways. There is nothing wrong with this but …<\/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":[3601,2195,2185,1424],"class_list":["post-14444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bike-ride","tag-atascocita-huffman","tag-bike-ride-report","tag-motobecane-le-champion","tag-road"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4tok-3KY","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14444","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=14444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14444\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}