{"id":14913,"date":"2012-07-16T14:57:58","date_gmt":"2012-07-16T19:57:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/?p=14913"},"modified":"2012-07-16T15:01:06","modified_gmt":"2012-07-16T20:01:06","slug":"early-start-and-no-rain-july-16th-bike-ride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2012\/07\/16\/early-start-and-no-rain-july-16th-bike-ride\/","title":{"rendered":"Early Start and No Rain &#8211; July 16th Bike Ride"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I got an earlier start today leaving the house at 9:07 AM. The sun was shining for a change from the recent spat of rain. Temperature ranged from 76 at the start to 90 at the end. Not surprisingly the humidity felt like 100% but really was 86% falling to 61% at the conclusion. I think my body built up a reserve of water waiting for when I rode next to let it flow out of every pore. My gloves dripped water and I squeezed them several times trying to get some dryness. When I got to the Huffman Chevron it took 6 or 7 paper towels to absorb all of the water. I sat on a newspaper while I drank my Diet Pepsi which got soaked. At home when I took off my shorts they felt like I just got out of the swimming pool dripping water.<\/p>\n<p>By the time I got home clouds started to move in and block out the sun but not the heat. No rain just clouds. The forecast for tomorrow mirrors today so a low chance of rain. With at Tour de France rest day I hope to get an even earlier start.<\/p>\n<p>After yesterday&#8217;s shortened route I rode the full route I planned with <strong>32.38 miles<\/strong> at 15.5 mph average speed. Max speed came in at 20.9 mph and average cadence at 80.2 RPM. This brings July miles up to <strong>198.55<\/strong> and YTD stands at <strong>3511.97<\/strong>. Riding time totaled 2:04:57 plus 21:20 time stopped. No other bicyclists crossed my route.<\/p>\n<p>[iframe http:\/\/connect.garmin.com\/activity\/199992378 98% 800]<\/p>\n<p>[nggallery id=482]<\/p>\n<p>[iframe http:\/\/ridewithgps.com\/trips\/781228\/embed 98% 600]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got an earlier start today leaving the house at 9:07 AM. The sun was shining for a change from the recent spat of rain. Temperature ranged from 76 at the start to 90 at the end. Not surprisingly the <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2012\/07\/16\/early-start-and-no-rain-july-16th-bike-ride\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/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-14913","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-3Sx","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14913","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=14913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14913\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}