{"id":15273,"date":"2012-08-09T17:48:37","date_gmt":"2012-08-09T22:48:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/?p=15273"},"modified":"2012-08-09T17:49:51","modified_gmt":"2012-08-09T22:49:51","slug":"my-road-bike-called-august-9th-bicycle-ride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2012\/08\/09\/my-road-bike-called-august-9th-bicycle-ride\/","title":{"rendered":"My Road Bike Called – August 9th Bicycle Ride"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ulysses had his sirens<\/strong><\/a> and I have my road bike. After three days riding my mountain bike I gave into the call from my road bike from the other side of the garage. To be honest I tried to stay with my plan to ride my mountain bike but I saw the mileage for three days and realized that one good road bike trip would equal that effort. So to get that mileage I decided to ride the New Caney – FM1485 E – Huffman route again and not get lost this time. I can report I was successful. This time I turned on Hargraves Street where I should have and then took the streets to get me through the Commons of Lake Houston without one wrong turn. The route rode correctly now totaled 41.81 miles<\/strong> instead of the 47 some miles when I wandered off course the last time.<\/p>\n

Just to show how my return to the road went I checked my average speed a few times towards the end: 35 miles = 16.2 mph, 38 miles = 16.2 mph and the ending average 16.0 mph. I am not exactly sure why I maintained this average speed but I will take it. Supposedly a “cool” front could approach southeast Texas this weekend but during the ride the air felt cool compared to my other rides. Max speed was 22.3 mph. When I got home and checked the temperature it wasn’t that cool though at 96 degrees. I could have started earlier than 10:26 AM but I took care of some small chores and double checked the Google map for the Commons of Lake Houston to get the streets I needed to turn on. Scattered clouds over top of me meant the sun kept me warm and the light 8.1 mph SW breeze helped a little but I still seated up a storm. When I got to the Huffman Chevron station I wrung out my gloves to create a puddle on the concrete that was still wet when I left about 30 minutes later.<\/p>\n

I thought my ride heading west over Lake Houston on FM1960 would be the usual one but when I got there the repair crews moved from the south side of the causeway to the north side so I rode the east bound should going west until I got past the construction barriers on the north side. So Now my rides to Huffman will need to jog to get around this repair work.<\/p>\n

Other ride statistics:<\/p>\n