Today’s ride brought back memories from 60 years ago when I saw some young children playing in a sprinkler in the driveway. I can remember when I was that age and running through the sprinkler to keep cool. Back where I grew up the summer temperature usually did not reach the level in the Houston area but I didn’t know any better and thought it was hot. When I got back home the temperature was 95.5 degrees under a partly cloudy sky and a 8 mph SW breeze.<\/p>\n
To get the week of to a good start I went on the Eagle Springs – Walden – Huffman route of 34.52 miles<\/strong> averaging 15.5 mph. I saw the children in the sprinkler on Timber View Drive as I headed to FM1960 to ride over Lake Houston to Huffman. I noticed that the street sweeper made a pass on the east bound shoulder over Lake Houston to clean up the dead bug piles and other debris. When I got to the Cedar Landing restaurant entrance the sweeper idled there waiting to head to the next job. I did see another bicyclist at the corner of Will Clayton Parkway and Timber Forest Drive. I wanted to wave but I was accelerating through the intersection and could not take my hands off the handlebar.<\/p>\n The march to my June goal of 524 miles<\/strong> is well on its way with my miles totaling 500<\/strong> and year to date standing at 2940 miles<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Tomorrow looks like another great bicycling day weather wise repeating today’s weather plus a 20% chance of rain.<\/p>\n Links to Garmin Connect<\/strong><\/a> and RideWithGPS.com<\/strong><\/a> maps and metrics.<\/p>\n [wppa type=”slide” album=”169″][\/wppa]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Today’s ride brought back memories from 60 years ago when I saw some young children playing in a sprinkler in the driveway. I can remember when I was that age and running through the sprinkler to keep cool. Back where …<\/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":[3892,2185,1350,1424],"class_list":["post-21624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bike-ride","tag-eagle-springs-walden-huffman","tag-motobecane-le-champion","tag-ride-report","tag-road"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4tok-5CM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21624","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=21624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21624\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}