Sitting at the Stripes station on FM1314 and Valley Ranch Parkway I watched the large Texas flag standing almost straight out from the southwest wind. The wind helped to cool me off after biking 20.6 miles up to that point. I look at these rest stops as a reward for biking. While the wind cooled me while I rested I knew it would be in my face once I left there and started home until I got to Kingwood Drive and starting riding to the east.<\/p>\n
The weather service issued a heat advisory for today:<\/p>\n
heat indices will range from 105 to 112 over the coastal counties… and across eastern Harris and southern Liberty counties.<\/em> so I wanted to get my ride finished before this hit. I started at 10:10 and finished at 12:52. The temperatures: 87 (65% humidity) and 96 (42% humidity). The southwest wind enhances the heat coming from Mexico.<\/p>\n My route went north to New Caney and then back south on the US59 service road to Valley Ranch. This was 32.54 miles<\/strong> long at a 15.4 mph average speed. August miles now: 139.72<\/strong>. Year to date miles: 4391<\/strong>. No other bicyclists sighted during my ride. They are probably working or avoiding the heat.<\/p>\n [wppa type=”slideonlyf” album=”212″ size=”auto”][\/wppa]<\/p>\n [iframe http:\/\/connect.garmin.com:80\/activity\/embed\/354529210 470px 570px]<\/p>\n [iframe http:\/\/ridewithgps.com\/trips\/1568911\/embed 95% 700px]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sitting at the Stripes station on FM1314 and Valley Ranch Parkway I watched the large Texas flag standing almost straight out from the southwest wind. The wind helped to cool me off after biking 20.6 miles up to that point. …<\/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":[4361,3109,1350,1424],"class_list":["post-22103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bike-ride","tag-motobecane-le-champion-cf","tag-new-caney-valley-ranch","tag-ride-report","tag-road"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4tok-5Kv","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22103","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=22103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n* Timing… this afternoon into early this evening. Highest heat indices will be likely between 3 and 6 PM.<\/em><\/p>\n