{"id":15012,"date":"2012-07-21T14:59:19","date_gmt":"2012-07-21T19:59:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/?p=15012"},"modified":"2012-07-21T14:59:19","modified_gmt":"2012-07-21T19:59:19","slug":"a-day-off-and-now-back-july-21st-bike-ride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2012\/07\/21\/a-day-off-and-now-back-july-21st-bike-ride\/","title":{"rendered":"A Day Off and Now Back &#8211; July 21st Bike Ride"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I took yesterday off for a couple of reasons: my right hip and lower back pain needed time off to recover and I biked 6 days in a row. My hip and lower back improved some so I figured biking today would be okay. When I first got on the bike and started turning the pedals I began to think otherwise but after a few minutes my hip and back loosened and the pain went away mostly. Now when I stopped and put my right foot down I could tell the soreness was still there but not near the level it was yesterday. So biking today I think actually helped the situation some. As I sit and type this there are some occasional twinges but nothing near the worst.<\/p>\n<p>While I was off the weather heated up around here. The temperature range for today&#8217;s ride was 85 going to 95 at the end. While the temperature went up the humidity went down from 67% to 47%, the first time it has been this low in several days. The dryness means the moisture from the rain is getting evaporated. A light 6.9 north breeze helped keep me cool in the shade. Perspiration was not so heavy today with the air absorbing a lot of it before it ran down my arms and face. Scattered clouds meant the sun was out most of the time. Riding into the shade made a difference.<\/p>\n<p>No other riders spotted today. I started at 9:56 AM so the others probably were finished by then.<\/p>\n<p>I rearranged my route some today going on a street through Montgomery Pines apartments from Loop 494 to US59 northbound service road. I wondered how this road went so today I decided to find out. My route totaled <strong>33.10 miles<\/strong> at an average speed of 15.0 mph and a max speed of 20.0 mph. Average cadence was 77 RPM. With my soreness I thought my speed would fall below 15 mph but I felt good enough to keep up a good pace. Riding time totaled 2:13:05 plus 47:31 time stopped. I took a longer break because of a phone call. Miles for this week total <strong>158.62<\/strong>, July miles now are at <strong>324.79<\/strong> and YTD is <strong>3638.20<\/strong>. For some reason the SportTracks program calculated my average speed without subtracting the time I stopped so the Garmin Connect is the correct information. The <a title=\"http:\/\/ridewithgps.com\/trips\/792286\" href=\"http:\/\/ridewithgps.com\/trips\/792286\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>RideWithGPS.com data<\/strong><\/a> mirrors the Garmin data.<\/p>\n<p>[iframe http:\/\/connect.garmin.com\/activity\/201581959 98% 825]<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I took yesterday off for a couple of reasons: my right hip and lower back pain needed time off to recover and I biked 6 days in a row. My hip and lower back improved some so I figured biking <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2012\/07\/21\/a-day-off-and-now-back-july-21st-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":[2195,2185,3563,1424],"class_list":["post-15012","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-3U8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15012","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=15012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15012\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}