Winter weather changes quickly. Before I started today’s ride I looked at the weather conditions. The 13 SE wind and some scattered rain pockets south of FM1960 suggested I should ride one of my northerly routes. The rain that direction appeared to be a long distance to the north and west. So I set out at 2:16 PM with the intent of riding to Community Drive and then through Valley Ranch. Lately I have thinking about the route I leave Kingwood and decided to go west on Northpark Drive and then turn left onto Russel Palmer Road. I rode this route before but only on my mountain bike because there is a 200 yard section where I ride on grass and dirt to get into Kings Manor subdivision. I went this way and thankfully the grass was mowed on the section I needed to ride on.<\/p>\n
As I went through Kings Manor I started to look at the sky and it seemed to get a little darker. Riding on Loop 494 I thought maybe I should shorten this ride from 25 miles to around 20 so when I got to FM1314 I turned left with the hope of riding through Briar Tree and Oakhurst and then back home. All went as planned but I needed to stop at the Stripes Store at Valley Ranch Drive for a restroom visit. When I exited the store I rode south over FM1314 and down Old Sorters Road but I didn’t get far before rain drops starting hitting my windbreaker jacket. This prompted a quick turn to the other store on the south side of FM1314 and under the gas island cover. I waited a few minutes and ventured out but the rain was still falling lightly. Back under the cover I waited another 5 minutes or so and then decided to head back east to US59. Riding along the rain picked up and by the time I reached the Shell station at US59 the rain was steady. Looking at the sky I could see the rain probably would around for awhile so I called my wife for ride back home. So my 20 mile ride ended at 12.8 miles<\/strong> in Porter. No rain in the forecast tomorrow so maybe I can get some riding in then.<\/p>\n There is a radar screen in the slides below to show what it looked like when I got back home. The February and year to date summaries are in the slides as well.<\/p>\n Links to Garmin Connect<\/strong><\/a> and RideWithGPS.com<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n [wppa type=”slideonlyf” album=”86″ size=”auto”][\/wppa]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Winter weather changes quickly. Before I started today’s ride I looked at the weather conditions. The 13 SE wind and some scattered rain pockets south of FM1960 suggested I should ride one of my northerly routes. The rain that direction …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[2185,4152,2364,1350,1424],"class_list":["post-20180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bike-ride","tag-motobecane-le-champion","tag-porter-texas","tag-rain","tag-ride-report","tag-road"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4tok-5fu","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20180","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=20180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20180\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}