My Sunday meeting finished about on time so I was able to ride in some beautiful April weather. Scattered clouds, 83 degrees at the start dropping to 79 at the finish but I did endure a 17 mph SE wind. Before I started out I watched the last 3 Km of the Amstel-Gold race from Europe. I was able to to watch some of the race before I left for church. Today I wore a long sleeve jersey in case the wind had some coolness; I was very comfortable and no sunscreen on my arms.<\/p>\n
The stiff wind did not keep me from improving my average speed over yesterday to 14.8 mph over the 26.19 mile<\/strong> course going north to Community Drive, up over US59 (my only hill) and on to Valley Ranch where I ran into the head wind. I did stop at the Stripes store on FM1314 at Valley Ranch Parkway to recover from the wind and drink a Diet Pepsi. It is always interesting to watch the people coming and going at\u00c2\u00a0convenience store (or any public place for that matter). I did not realize but I road a marathon distance.<\/p>\n Adding today’s ride April now totals 335.25 miles<\/strong> and year to date I rode 1649.89 miles<\/strong>. I am about 385 \u00c2\u00a0miles from my April goal of 720 miles with 16 days to go. It is still up in the air if I will hit my goal but I am working on it. Tomorrow I probably will not ride due to my brother-in-law’s funeral in Carmona, TX.<\/p>\n [wppa type=”slideonlyf” album=”129″ size=”auto”][\/wppa]<\/p>\n