First ride after Thanksgiving waited until Sunday. Friday featured sporadic rain and Saturday slowly warmed up to 67 degrees. I had my doubts about the temperature reaching the 75 degree forecast but it got close at 73 when I finished at 2:31. When I left home at 12:31 the sky lacked any clouds but as I rode some wispy clouds started to move in from the south and southwest. I dressed like it was going to be cool with a long sleeve jersey over a short sleeve one. I am glad I did because in the shade the 10 mph breeze made it feel cooler than you would expect. I think the pavement cooled down with two nights in the 40’s so when the wind goes by it cools down. I notice a similar effect when I ride over Lake Houston and the water is cooler than the air.<\/p>\n
Fortunately Thanksgiving did not add any to my weight. In years gone by I have been known to add 7 or 8 pounds. I would like to drop a couple of pounds but that is not such a big deal.<\/p>\n
My route selection today took me north to Porter where I turned east on FM1314. This was my first time into the wind and I could feel the coolness even in the full sun. This alternated as I turned back north on Loop 494 to Community Drive where I went west for a short distance and then took the US59 south service road to Valley Ranch. Once I crossed over US59 on Community Drive (the high elevation point for the ride) it was into the wind most of the time. This route totaled 28.37 miles<\/strong> at 15.4 mph average speed, 22.9 mph top speed and 78.4 RPM average cadence. With this less than 30 mile distance the riding time came to 1:50:40 plus 9:05 time stopped. Mileage totals: 75.94 miles<\/strong> this week, 254.58 miles<\/strong> in November, and 6194.8 miles<\/strong> YTD.<\/p>\n A sad point on the ride happened when I got to the Old Sorters Road and FM1314 intersection. About 200 feet west of the intersection a full size pickup and a small pickup collided. I stopped at the traffic signal as a Porter fire truck, Montgomery Country Sheriff and a Montgomery County Hospital District ambulance all arrived at the scene. There were several people standing around the big pickup. I could not see the damage from where I stopped. With the traffic backed up I waited until the green light to cross over FM1314 and continue my ride.<\/p>\n Links to Garmin Connect<\/strong><\/a> and RideWithGPS.com<\/strong><\/a> data views.<\/p>\n [wppa type=”slide” album=”55″ size=”auto”][\/wppa]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" First ride after Thanksgiving waited until Sunday. Friday featured sporadic rain and Saturday slowly warmed up to 67 degrees. I had my doubts about the temperature reaching the 75 degree forecast but it got close at 73 when I finished …<\/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":[2195,2185,3797,1424],"class_list":["post-19469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bike-ride","tag-bike-ride-report","tag-motobecane-le-champion","tag-new-caney-hs-valley-ranch","tag-road"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4tok-541","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19469","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=19469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19469\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}