{"id":24601,"date":"2014-06-06T13:17:57","date_gmt":"2014-06-06T18:17:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/?p=24601"},"modified":"2016-11-30T08:45:49","modified_gmt":"2016-11-30T14:45:49","slug":"new-asphalt-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2014\/06\/06\/new-asphalt-coming\/","title":{"rendered":"New Asphalt Coming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Because I am riding the Spindletop Spin tomorrow in Beaumont I didn&#8217;t need to ride too far today. I rode to the north to New Caney and then back through Valley Ranch, Briar Tree and Oakhurst. I was surprised as I exited Kingwood through Woodridge Forest. On Adams St. Montgomery County Precinct 4 road crews were preparing the street for re-surfacing. Since this street was recently connected to Woodridge Forest I suspect the traffic has increased going to Loop 494. According to the flagman at the railroad tracks they hope to put asphalt on next week weather permitting. This should be a nice improvement over the old surface which had many patches, dips and bumps.<\/p>\n<p>I biked <strong>30.27 miles<\/strong> averaging 14.7 mph. At the beginning of the ride I went past an elementary school where parents were collecting their children as school ends for the summer. I had to be careful navigating all of the cars and people.<\/p>\n<p>Summer weather is here. It was 81 when I started at 9:49 and 92 when I finished at 12:29. Scattered clouds and a light to calm breeze meant perspiration was flowing heavily. Around the 18 mile point my bandana couldn&#8217;t hold it back any longer and a streak went down my glasses. At the Stripes station I spent several minutes sopping up the sweat before going inside to get a drink. Humidity started at 71% and dropped to 47% at the end of the ride.<\/p>\n<p>Mileage statistics:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>175.86 miles this week<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>204.98 miles in June<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>885 miles is the goal for June, 680 miles to go<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>2604 miles year to date<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/ridewithgps.com\/trips\/2778887\" href=\"http:\/\/ridewithgps.com\/trips\/2778887\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Link to RideWithGPS.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>[wppa type=&#8221;slide&#8221; album=&#8221;336&#8243; size=&#8221;auto&#8221;][\/wppa]<\/p>\n<p>[iframe http:\/\/connect.garmin.com:80\/activity\/embed\/514992817 465px 548px]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because I am riding the Spindletop Spin tomorrow in Beaumont I didn&#8217;t need to ride too far today. I rode to the north to New Caney and then back through Valley Ranch, Briar Tree and Oakhurst. I was surprised as <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2014\/06\/06\/new-asphalt-coming\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/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":[3109,1350,1424,4699],"class_list":["post-24601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bike-ride","tag-new-caney-valley-ranch","tag-ride-report","tag-road","tag-stradalli-rp-14-carbon"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4tok-6oN","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24601","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=24601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24601\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}