With March in the rear view mirror I am looking forward to April. Today’s ride was a good start. I rode north to Roman Forest Blvd. and then turned south back through New Caney and then Valley Ranch. I left home a little later than I planned at 1:48 and got back at 4:39. This put me after the school bus parade at the schools I ride by in Valley Ranch, Briar Tree and Kings Manor. This is a good because the traffic around the schools can get strange as parents and children do unexpected things.<\/p>\n
This route was 33.44 miles<\/strong> long with a 15.3 mph average speed. Weather was kinder today with a few degrees warmer (82.9 when I finished), partly cloudy sky and a 14 mph SSE breeze. The wind did not slow me down like yesterday. There were a few dark clouds above the Stripes station when I took a break there around 21.8 miles into the ride but nothing came from it.<\/p>\n My new Stradalli RP-14 continues to please me with its handling and lightness. The breeze did not have any effect on the wheels today.<\/p>\n My April mileage goal will be the same as 2013: 779 miles<\/strong>. Now that today is in the books I have 763 miles<\/strong> to go. I am up to 1293 miles<\/strong> year to date and 72.75 miles<\/strong> this week.<\/p>\n Tomorrow could reach 84 degrees under a partly cloudy sky. I hope to be out there in it biking. More sun screen.<\/p>\n Links to Garmin Connect<\/strong><\/a> and RideWithGPS<\/strong><\/a> maps and metrics.<\/p>\n [wppa type=”slide” album=”297″ size=”auto”][\/wppa]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" With March in the rear view mirror I am looking forward to April. Today’s ride was a good start. I rode north to Roman Forest Blvd. and then turned south back through New Caney and then Valley Ranch. I left …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[2195,4342,1424,4699],"class_list":["post-23664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bike-ride","tag-bike-ride-report","tag-new-caney-roman-forest-valley-ranch","tag-road","tag-stradalli-rp-14-carbon"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4tok-69G","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23664","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=23664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23664\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}