The weather reverted back to summer today. No rain but perspiration made up for it. Yesterday I rode in the rain but today full sunshine with scattered clouds and 90 degrees. This could be the last 90 degree day for the year but I hope there are more. Wind kicked up to 13.8 mph with 21.9 mph gusts all from the southwest which probably explains the 90 degrees. Humidity registered 48% making for a drying wind. My wrist bands absorbed what little perspiration my arms generated.<\/p>\n
I chose a northerly route going up US59 to New Caney and then turning back south to home. Riding north I flew hitting my max speed of 22.1 mph with the helping tailwind. Once I got to FM1485 and make the turn underneath US59 I hit the headwind. My speed dropped from 20+ to 13 mph or so as I battled the wind. Some stretches where the tree cover came up closer to the service road I managed a burst of speed. My overall averaged speed was 15.1 mph with 75.9 RPM average cadence. The south service road took me to the Valley Ranch entrance and I got some relief going west and then north for about a mile. Some trees broke the wind until I turned left onto Valley Ranch Parkway. With a slight uphill grade and the wind I slowed way down. Going south on Valley Ranch Parkway was like a wind tunnel with the high trees on each side of the road set back enough to provide a path for the wind come at me.<\/p>\n
After crossing over FM1314 I was back amidst the trees close to the road but once I got to the two schools on Briar Tree I was back out in the open struggling against the wind. Leaving the open spaces and back amongst the trees the wind diminished until I got back on the US59 south service road to Kingwood Drive. Another U-turn under US59 and I had a tailwind for about a mile and a half taking me into Kings Manor and more houses and trees to break the wind up. From there on speed drops due to the residential and trails slowing me down. I got home at 4:04, riding 2:02:04 plus 10:20 time stopped. I started rather late at 1:51 for various reasons mostly waiting for the sun to burn off some of the clouds left over from yesterday’s rain front.<\/p>\n
The mileage standings after today’s ride: 100.02<\/strong> for the week, 449.13<\/strong> for October and 5745.98<\/strong> YTD. I washed the bike and waxed the chain before I started the ride which also contributed to the later start. Links to Garmin Connect<\/strong><\/a> and RideWithGPS.com<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n [wppa type=”album” album=”39″ size=”auto”][\/wppa]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The weather reverted back to summer today. No rain but perspiration made up for it. Yesterday I rode in the rain but today full sunshine with scattered clouds and 90 degrees. This could be the last 90 degree day for …<\/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":[2195,2185,3109,1424],"class_list":["post-19052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bike-ride","tag-bike-ride-report","tag-motobecane-le-champion","tag-new-caney-valley-ranch","tag-road"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4tok-4Xi","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19052","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=19052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19052\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}