The last time I rode this route on 5\/18\/2012 a section of FM1485 west of US59 sported the dreaded chip’n seal road surface. At the time I feared this might be permanent but today I thought enough time passed so I went that way again. Thankfully the chip’n seal surface got replaced with some nice and smooth asphalt. There is a short section in the left turn lane at Gene Campbell Road still waiting resurfacing but it will probably disappear soon.<\/p>\n
My start time got delayed some to 10:45 because of a meeting at my church. We want to start a men’s group and needed a planning session today. With the later start I thought the heat would be higher but thanks to the rain during the night the temperature was not bad with a 81 – 89 range but the humidity at the start was a moist 76%. By the time I finished it dropped to 58%. While I stopped at the Star Express Exxon in Porter a man filling his car talked with about how he had just moved back to Houston from West Texas after a year there and how much higher the humidity was here. He said he lived here before he moved but got used to the dryness quickly and missed it. A few minutes later a woman gassing up asked about my route. She said a co-worker biked over by I-45 and rode to US59, the opposite of what I do. Partly cloudy skies and a very light 4 mph east breeze made for a nice ride.<\/p>\n
When I got to the 30 mile point I checked my Garmin Edge 500 for my average speed and surprising it showed 16.5 mph. I did not realize the pace I rode. The full route ended up at 35.19 miles<\/strong> and the final average speed was 16.3 mph according Garmin Connect. For some reason SportTracks dropped it to 15.9 mph. Riding time totaled 2:12:57 with 27:53 stopped. My max speed was 22.7 mph on Garmin Connect with an average cadence of 83 RPM. Tomorrow I have a church meeting in the afternoon so I will probably not ride. So as the week ends my mileage standings: 191.79 miles<\/strong> this week, 265.89 miles<\/strong> in June, 3,056.27 miles<\/strong> YTD. Link to RideWithGPS.com data and map<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n [iframe http:\/\/connect.garmin.com\/activity\/187212209 98% 750]<\/p>\n [nggallery id=467]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The last time I rode this route on 5\/18\/2012 a section of FM1485 west of US59 sported the dreaded chip’n seal road surface. At the time I feared this might be permanent but today I thought enough time passed so …<\/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":[2195,2185,3563,1424],"class_list":["post-14560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bike-ride","tag-bike-ride-report","tag-motobecane-le-champion","tag-new-caney-gene-campbell-road","tag-road"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4tok-3MQ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14560","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=14560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14560\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}