I stayed west of Lake Houston in the Atascocita and Walden subdivisions. I got a late start leaving home at 1:58. The sky was overcast so I wore a short and long sleeve jersey so that I wouldn’t circle back home like yesterday. The home weather station showed 75 degrees as I prepared to leave and I was optimistic that it would be warm while I biked but the NNE 7 mph breeze still had the chill from the cool front that moved through Tuesday. If the sun had been out I think it would have felt warmer. I was spoiled by the 84 and 90 degree days earlier this week.<\/p>\n
The wind chilled my desire to ride too long every time I turned into it. My legs were not rested and pedaling was more effort than when it was warmer. I am a warm weather person and the late spring coolness requires more commitment. This morning I was reading the daily devotional The Upper Room. The author was talking about the leaves not turning color yet and then the temperature took a sudden downturn and the leaves changed into brilliant colors. I was confused until I looked at the author’s name and location: Australia. As we head to summer they are getting ready for winter.<\/p>\n
By staying west of Lake Houston the route was shorter than my usual ride totaling 23.62 miles<\/strong>. The shorter route did give me enough long sections without stops to push the average speed above 15 mph ending up at 14.9 mph. A new month is underway and the goal is 410 miles<\/strong> for May. This is much less than April because we will be on vacation for a couple of weeks. This week I biked 126.66 miles<\/strong> and year to date 2161 miles<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Friday it could be back to the low 80’s and Saturday the upper 80’s. I will be much happier to bike then.<\/p>\n Links to Garmin Connect<\/strong><\/a> and RideWithGPS<\/strong><\/a> maps and metrics.<\/p>\n [wppa type=”slide” album=”322″ size=”auto”][\/wppa]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I stayed west of Lake Houston in the Atascocita and Walden subdivisions. I got a late start leaving home at 1:58. The sky was overcast so I wore a short and long sleeve jersey so that I wouldn’t circle back …<\/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":[3720,1350,1424,4699],"class_list":["post-24019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bike-ride","tag-atascocita-walden","tag-ride-report","tag-road","tag-stradalli-rp-14-carbon"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4tok-6fp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24019","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=24019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24019\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}