I wasn’t planning on riding today but an unexpected release from another commitment allowed me to go. I was delayed some because my wife and I went out to eat first but this gave the sun time to warm things up a bit. The home weather station showed 74 degrees as I walked out to the garage to get started at 2:45. I thought the extra 6 degrees above yesterday warranted a slightly different wardrobe so Left the leg warmers and wind breaker jacket at home. For the first 12 miles or so this seemed like a good idea but when I turned south at New Caney the southbound US59 service road included some shade the northbound one didn’t.<\/p>\n
As long as I kept a good pace my body heat counteracted the wind chill most of the time. Whenever I stopped it didn’t take long for the coolness to penetrate my long sleeve jersey. After I left the Strips station on FM1314 most the route was in the shade. Coupled with the shade the sun was going down further behind the trees. By the time I reached Kingwood I was looking forward to pulling into the garage out of the light but cool breeze. It was 69 by the time I got home at 4:57.<\/p>\n
Today’s route include some roads I haven’t used in awhile. First I took the northbound US59 service road all the way to New Caney. I rode through the construction zone at Community Drive but I figured Sunday’s traffic would be light and it was. Only a few cars passed me during the short stretch without a shoulder before Community Drive. On the southbound side no cars passed me in that construction zone. The next change I rode through Forest Colony instead of Valley Ranch. I exited onto Valley Ranch Parkway which took me to the Stripes station on FM1314.<\/p>\n
After a short Diet Pepsi break at Stripes where I enjoyed the sun I got back on the bike for the final 11 miles. This section was the chilliest with lots of shade and turns into the cool breeze. I ended up biking 29.31 miles<\/strong> and averaged 15.3 mph. With today’s ride the week’s miles totaled 183.09<\/strong> and November miles now total 215.67<\/strong>. Year to date stands at 5762 miles<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Tomorrow’s weather forecast points to another good riding day: 75 degrees and partly cloudy.<\/p>\n Links to Garmin Connect<\/strong><\/a> and RideWithGPS.com<\/strong><\/a> metrics and maps.<\/p>\n [wppa type=”slide” album=”258″ size=”auto”][\/wppa]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I wasn’t planning on riding today but an unexpected release from another commitment allowed me to go. I was delayed some because my wife and I went out to eat first but this gave the sun time to warm things …<\/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":[4361,4560,1350,1424],"class_list":["post-22569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bike-ride","tag-motobecane-le-champion-cf","tag-new-caney-forest-colony","tag-ride-report","tag-road"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4tok-5S1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22569","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=22569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22569\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}