Past habits are hard to break. Case in point is today’s ride when I hesitated on wearing a long sleeve jersey. I was leaving later than normal (11:35) and it was already 90 degrees (55% humidity and a light breeze). The old thought is that short sleeves will be cooler but I am slowly coming around. The long sleeve was all white so maybe that has something to do with it but I felt cooler and perspired less. While I stopped at the Huffman Chevron the paper towels I normally use to sop up the sweat were not as wet as when I wear short sleeves. Not a very scientific evaluation but I like it. By the time I got back (1:45) the temperature moved up to 97 (40% humidity) and still a light 4.6 mph breeze at the big airport.<\/p>\n
Apparently other bicyclists were willing to brave the heat. I saw 4 others along my route to Huffman and back. I decided to take a basic route today since I got the late start after church. I ended up riding 28.05 miles<\/strong> and averaged 15.7 mph. My mileage for the week totaled 211.39<\/strong>, August miles are up to 107.18<\/strong> and year to date I am at 4358 miles<\/strong>.<\/p>\n No biking tomorrow. My wife is having cataract surgery and will not be able to move around too much. May be I will be riding on Tuesday.<\/p>\n [wppa type=”slideonlyf” album=”211″ size=”auto”][\/wppa]<\/p>\n [iframe http:\/\/connect.garmin.com:80\/activity\/embed\/353479519 470px 570px]<\/p>\n [iframe http:\/\/ridewithgps.com\/trips\/1562844\/embed 95% 700px]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Past habits are hard to break. Case in point is today’s ride when I hesitated on wearing a long sleeve jersey. I was leaving later than normal (11:35) and it was already 90 degrees (55% humidity and a light breeze). …<\/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":[4361,1350,1424,4177],"class_list":["post-22093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bike-ride","tag-motobecane-le-champion-cf","tag-ride-report","tag-road","tag-walden-huffman"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4tok-5Kl","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22093","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=22093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22093\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}