I rode to the south today going through Atascocita, Walden at Lake Houston and on to Huffman before turning back to Kingwood. I started earlier today at 10:07 under scattered clouds, 81 degrees and a light 8 mph south wind. When I finished my home weather station reported 91 degrees. After yesterday’s fast pace I rode a little slower today at a 15.0 mph average speed. Along the route SportTracks thinks I hit 27.7 mph top speed but Garmin Connect says only 21.0 mph. My legs could not put out enough power to go faster when I rode into the wind. The times I rode with the wind I managed a nice steady pace.<\/p>\n
No other bicyclists crossed my route today. As I rode along I thought about how retirement freed up my day to allow me to ride during the day. The route totaled 31.84 miles<\/strong>. The week’s miles total 65.26<\/strong>, 545.11 miles<\/strong> for September and 5262.38 miles<\/strong> YTD. The roads on this route are smooth without chip’n seal. Links for Garmin Connect<\/strong><\/a> and RideWithGPS.com<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n [wppa type=”slide” album=”25″ size=”auto”][\/wppa]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I rode to the south today going through Atascocita, Walden at Lake Houston and on to Huffman before turning back to Kingwood. I started earlier today at 10:07 under scattered clouds, 81 degrees and a light 8 mph south wind. …<\/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-15915","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-48H","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15915","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=15915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15915\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}