Good Friday weather was pretty good for a bike ride. When I left home at 12:25 the wind was kicking up 18 mph gust from the SSE with a mostly cloudy sky and 76 degrees. I wanted to go on a route I haven’t rode for a while so I decided to go north to New Caney through Roman Forest and up to Splendora before riding south into the wind. This was a good plan until I got to Splendora. As I got on the US59 southbound service road I checked my average speed and found 16.8 mph but I figured by the time I got to Kingwood Drive this would drop below 16 mph. However as I made the U-turn under US59 at Kingwood Drive my average speed was 16.2 mph. Riding about 14 miles into the wind did not eat up the all of the speed I built up riding north. The temperature at the end of the ride was 80 degrees. Spring might taking hold.<\/p>\n
This route came up to 38.32 miles<\/strong> at an overall 16.0 mph average speed. Adding today’s ride brings the March miles to 587.72<\/strong>, almost 7 miles past my goal of 581. Year to date miles now total 1269.30<\/strong>. I made my goal!!!!<\/strong> I plan on riding tomorrow with two other bicyclists so I should go into the 600 mile mark for the month.<\/p>\n Riding the southbound service road I stopped in Porter at the Star Stop Exxon for some rest (29 mile point), a Diet Pepsi and a Kashi trail mix bar. While I was sitting in the sun eating I saw a pickup truck going through the intersection pulling a trailer with what looked like a large dinosaur with part of the tail missing. I suspect they removed the tail to fit on the trailer. Not every day you see dinosaurs. There have been attempts to open a dinosaur park in New Caney, maybe this one escaped?<\/p>\n Links to Garmin Connect<\/strong><\/a> and RideWithGPS.com<\/strong><\/a> maps and stats.<\/p>\n [wppa type=”slideonlyf” album=”118″ size=”auto”][\/wppa]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"