{"id":22033,"date":"2013-07-29T15:14:49","date_gmt":"2013-07-29T20:14:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/?p=22033"},"modified":"2016-12-23T18:52:25","modified_gmt":"2016-12-24T00:52:25","slug":"only-44-to-go-july-29th-bike-ride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2013\/07\/29\/only-44-to-go-july-29th-bike-ride\/","title":{"rendered":"Only 44 To Go &#8211; July 29th Bike Ride"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The legs felt great today. I wanted to pick a route about 35 miles long to get closer to the 900 mile mark for July and today&#8217;s New Caney &#8211; Casey Ridge &#8211; Roman Forest route did just that at <strong>35.29 miles<\/strong>. This puts me at <strong>856.87 miles<\/strong> for the month, only 44 from my goal. Year to date miles are <strong>4182<\/strong>. I checked my average speed at 22 miles and had to look twice to be sure I wasn&#8217;t seeing wrong: 16.8 mph. Looking at the interval average speeds in the slide below shows 1 at 18.4 mph and 2 at 17+ mph.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately the wind helped me for the first 20 miles or so coming from the south. When I got to US59 to go south I picked up the headwind and it stayed with me until Kingwood Drive. Scattered clouds did hide much of the sun and the temperature reflected it. When I started the ride at 10:13 it was 86 degrees and 67% humidity. I did not stop for a break along the route other than to refill my water bottle in New Caney. The one drawback about this route was no stores have Diet Pepsi fountain drinks. As a result the total time and riding time were only 7 minutes apart: 2:28:12 and 2:11:54 respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Generally the roads are good on this route except for the section of Roman Forest Blvd from Peach Creek to US59 was like a washboard. The shoulder on FM1485 is about 3 feet wide except for the approaches to the two bridges where it widens out to 8 feet or more.<\/p>\n<p>[wppa type=&#8221;slideonlyf&#8221; album=&#8221;206&#8243; size=&#8221;auto&#8221;][\/wppa]<\/p>\n<p>[iframe http:\/\/connect.garmin.com:80\/activity\/embed\/350296507 470px 570px]<\/p>\n<p>[iframe http:\/\/ridewithgps.com\/trips\/1544485\/embed 95% 700px]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The legs felt great today. I wanted to pick a route about 35 miles long to get closer to the 900 mile mark for July and today&#8217;s New Caney &#8211; Casey Ridge &#8211; Roman Forest route did just that at <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2013\/07\/29\/only-44-to-go-july-29th-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":[4361,3708,1350,1424],"class_list":["post-22033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bike-ride","tag-motobecane-le-champion-cf","tag-new-caney-casey-ridge-roman-forest","tag-ride-report","tag-road"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4tok-5Jn","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22033","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=22033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22033\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}