{"id":19998,"date":"2013-01-19T16:40:48","date_gmt":"2013-01-19T22:40:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/?p=19998"},"modified":"2017-03-10T20:57:56","modified_gmt":"2017-03-11T02:57:56","slug":"another-almost-warm-ride-january-19th-bike-ride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2013\/01\/19\/another-almost-warm-ride-january-19th-bike-ride\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Almost Warm Ride &#8211; January 19th Bike Ride"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Waiting for the temperature to reach 60 today did not take as long as I expected. From a low of 38 when I got up at 8:00 AM it only took about 4 hours to reach the 60+ degree point when I left at 12:48 PM. When I start riding it was 65 and by the time I finished at 2:59 PM it reached 68. The partly cloudy sky helped keep me comfortable along with leg warmers, a long sleeve jersey, a short sleeve jersey and a windbreaker jacket. No full finger gloves today. The light breeze still had a chill to it so I am still wishing for more warmth. Tomorrow I will watch the Tour Down Under race preview show to savor the heat in Australia. Maybe someday I will spend our winter in their summer.<\/p>\n<p>Since I rode to the south yesterday I rode a northerly route to Community Drive and then through Valley Ranch. Not much changed since my last ride along this route. The Grand Parkway construction has not advanced any that I can see. By adding a few extra streets to my typical route I rode <strong>28.13 miles<\/strong>. I managed to get my average speed to 15.1 mph, up from yesterday. I did not see any other bicyclists out today. With today&#8217;s ride I now am up to <strong>99.12 miles<\/strong> for January. The weather is supposed to about the same tomorrow so I should be able to ride then. Maybe I can reach last January&#8217;s 267 miles. Next Saturday there is the\u00c2\u00a0<a title=\"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/ai1ec_event\/bike-through-the-forest-and-the-hills-coldspring-tx-2\/?instance_id=917\" href=\"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/ai1ec_event\/bike-through-the-forest-and-the-hills-coldspring-tx-2\/?instance_id=917\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Bike through the Forest and the Hills<\/strong><\/a> ride in Coldspring I would like to ride. That is too far out for an accurate weather forecast so I am not sure I will just yet.<\/p>\n<p>I bought a new computer this week with Windows 8 so I am still learning how to use my bike programs. Some of the things I did automatically I now have to think about.<\/p>\n<p>[wppa type=&#8221;slideonlyf&#8221; album=&#8221;76&#8243; size=&#8221;auto&#8221;][\/wppa]<\/p>\n<p>Links to <a title=\"http:\/\/connect.garmin.com\/activity\/263800531\" href=\"http:\/\/connect.garmin.com\/activity\/263800531\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Garmin Connect<\/strong><\/a> and <a title=\"http:\/\/ridewithgps.com\/trips\/1099249\" href=\"http:\/\/ridewithgps.com\/trips\/1099249\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Ridewithgps.com<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Waiting for the temperature to reach 60 today did not take as long as I expected. From a low of 38 when I got up at 8:00 AM it only took about 4 hours to reach the 60+ degree point <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2013\/01\/19\/another-almost-warm-ride-january-19th-bike-ride\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/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":[2643,2185,1350,1424],"class_list":["post-19998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bike-ride","tag-community-drive-valley-ranch","tag-motobecane-le-champion","tag-ride-report","tag-road"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4tok-5cy","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19998","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=19998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19998\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}