{"id":21580,"date":"2013-06-13T15:27:39","date_gmt":"2013-06-13T20:27:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/?p=21580"},"modified":"2017-02-14T12:34:12","modified_gmt":"2017-02-14T18:34:12","slug":"shorter-than-usual-june-13th-bike-ride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2013\/06\/13\/shorter-than-usual-june-13th-bike-ride\/","title":{"rendered":"Shorter Than Usual &#8211; June 13th Bike Ride"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Looking at today&#8217;s route I see a hatchet with a leather strap at the bottom of the handle. The routes sometime have weird shapes or remind you of one of those psychology test shapes. This being the fourth day in a row riding my legs were a little slow and not so willing to push the pedals along the <strong>26.73 mile<\/strong> route. Average speed shows it coming in at 14.7 mph, below my normal 15+ mph.<\/p>\n<p>The weather was warm and humid starting at 85 degrees and 69% humidity, ending at 92 degrees and 54% humidity. I poured perspiration whenever I stopped leaving a wet pavement below me. When I got home my bandana and gloves were soaked. My shorts felt like I just climbed out of the swimming pool dripping water as I walked.<\/p>\n<p>I rode a mixed route today going north on Loop 494 once I exited Kingwood. Since they resurfaced Loop 494 and added a nice shoulder it is not a problem biking there. In fact during the day I think the traffic is better on 494 than on the US59 service road. Once I got to Community Drive it was time to head west and then down the service road to Valley Ranch. The wind was not that much today moving at 7 mph from the west. With all of the humidity riding into the wind felt cooling at times especially after I stopped for a traffic light or stop sign.<\/p>\n<p>Lately my rides typically exceed 30 miles but today I thought of as a rest day for the weekend coming up. So far I biked 11 out of 13 days in June; much different from May.<\/p>\n<p>Mileage to date: <strong>378.71<\/strong> for June, <strong>2818<\/strong> year to date. Links to <a title=\"http:\/\/connect.garmin.com\/activity\/327270109\" href=\"http:\/\/connect.garmin.com\/activity\/327270109\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Gramin Connect<\/strong><\/a> and <a title=\"http:\/\/ridewithgps.com\/trips\/1405173\" href=\"http:\/\/ridewithgps.com\/trips\/1405173\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Ridewithgps.com<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>[wppa type=&#8221;slide&#8221; album=&#8221;164&#8243;][\/wppa]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looking at today&#8217;s route I see a hatchet with a leather strap at the bottom of the handle. The routes sometime have weird shapes or remind you of one of those psychology test shapes. This being the fourth day in <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2013\/06\/13\/shorter-than-usual-june-13th-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":"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":[2643,2185,1350,1424],"class_list":["post-21580","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-5C4","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21580","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=21580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21580\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}