No biking yesterday due to the remodeling project. I stayed home while my wife ran some errands. Today though I was able to ride while she stayed home with the workers.<\/p>\n
The weather man said today was going to be cooler and it was by a few degrees. My home weather station recorded 102.4 yesterday late in the afternoon. Compare that today’s 97.2 when I finished the ride then it was cooler but 97 is still plenty hot. At least the humidity was low (for Houston ) at 37%. I looked at the forecast for Wichita Falls for next week. Unless there is a big change the heat for Saturday will not get to 100. The sky was partly cloudy today and the wind was calm. Earlier today I watched the Eneco Tour from Belgium where the wind caused a major split in the peloton at one point. None of that here.<\/p>\n
Before I rode today I waxed the chain on my Motobecane Le Champion CF. I noticed some rust from riding on the wet streets last Saturday. I also wanted to get this done before going to Wichita Falls. I installed this chain on 7\/8\/13 and since then I rode over 1,000 miles so it was time. The chain has been running smoothly and quietly.<\/p>\n
The route took me north to New Caney and then south through Valley Ranch. The goal was to get over 30 miles and I biked 32.4 miles<\/strong> at 15.9 mph average speed. I stopped at the Stripes station on FM1314 for my usual Diet Pepsi break. When I came out of the store I noticed something on my rear tire. At first I thought it was a thread or maybe some gum but it turned out to be one of those tiny wires stuck in the tire. I pulled it out and fortunately it was not in far enough to cause a leak. Probably one flat averted!! My resting spot is getting smaller as the sun intrudes further into it. If I go late in the day (12:54 today) the sun takes most of the shade away and as summer fades the sun goes down more.<\/p>\n Leaving Stripes I biked home with a slight tailwind helping me keep a fast pace. Traffic was light. I did go through some road work on the northbound US59 service earlier. The Grand Parkway construction will be in that area until 2015. I am not sure how this will impact my routes.<\/p>\n Tomorrow the temperature is forecast to be 91 and 40% chance of rain. I should be able to bike if the weather permits. Links to Garmin Connect<\/strong> <\/a>and RideWithGPS.com<\/strong><\/a> for today’s ride.<\/p>\n [wppa type=”slideonlyf” album=”218″ size=”auto”][\/wppa]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" No biking yesterday due to the remodeling project. I stayed home while my wife ran some errands. Today though I was able to ride while she stayed home with the workers. The weather man said today was going to be …<\/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-22142","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-5L8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22142","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=22142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22142\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}