About 7:30 this morning I walked my niece to school in 39 degree weather. As I walked I wondered if it would warm up enough to go biking today. That walk covered about 2 miles three and back. Later about noon I decided to walk to the post office. Going to the post office and back was around 3 miles. As I walked back I noticed the nice sunny day warming up and I unzipped my jacket to let some of the heat out. When I got back home I checked the home weather station and 64 degrees stared back at me. So I decided a bike ride was in order. The last ride was a week ago on January 11th.<\/p>\n
At one point on my walk back from the post office I was on a trail beside a bayou and I looked down to the opposite bank and saw a herd of turtles (probably 6 or 7) basking in the sun. I tried to get closer to take a picture but they saw me and scurried into the water.<\/p>\n
As I got ready at first I thought the mountain bike would be my choice but I changed my mind because I can ride my road bike faster so I can go farther. The route through Atascocita and Walden at Lake Houston covered 21.61 miles<\/strong> in 1:29:26 time. My average speed was only 14.5 mph but with the wind chill I don’t know if I wanted to go too much faster. Even though the SSW 4 mph wind normally is not a problem wind chill at 64 degrees is. Fortunately I dressed pretty close to what I needed to keep warm: leg warmers, long sleeve jersey, short sleeve jersey, shorts and full finger gloves. The gloves were most appreciated because moving through the air and shade I could feel the chill trying to get a hold of my fingers. I only encountered one other bicyclist out in the cool but sunny weather.<\/p>\n January mileage is a paltry 70.99 miles, far below last year’s 267.25. I am beginning to think getting to that number will be a stretch with the cold weather and rain dominating January so far. The next three days are supposed to be in the 60’s so I might be able to add some more mileage.<\/p>\n [wppa type=”slide” album=”75″ size=”auto”][\/wppa]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" About 7:30 this morning I walked my niece to school in 39 degree weather. As I walked I wondered if it would warm up enough to go biking today. That walk covered about 2 miles three and back. Later about …<\/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":[3720,2195,2185,1424],"class_list":["post-19990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bike-ride","tag-atascocita-walden","tag-bike-ride-report","tag-motobecane-le-champion","tag-road"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4tok-5cq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19990","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=19990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19990\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}