{"id":25020,"date":"2014-07-18T15:23:07","date_gmt":"2014-07-18T20:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/?p=25020"},"modified":"2016-11-12T20:25:55","modified_gmt":"2016-11-13T02:25:55","slug":"humidity-to-spare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2014\/07\/18\/humidity-to-spare\/","title":{"rendered":"Humidity to Spare!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I completed the ride to Huffman today. Rather than go north I wanted to see if I could get to Huffman without riding in the rain. Technically that didn&#8217;t happen today since I rode in light sprinkles on the east bound shoulder over Lake Houston on FM1960. With the rain being light I figured I could ride out of it.<\/p>\n<p>People around here usually attach the humidity to when they talk about the temperature or heat. I try not to do that but today on my home weather station it was 81 degrees and 97% humidity when I started biking at 11:42. By the time I got home at 2:29 the temperature rose to 84 and the humidity dropped to 96%. No wonder I was producing all of the perspiration. The forecasted rain either is yet to come or passed through early in the morning. I delayed the start to allow the rain time to leave and watch stage 13 of the Tour de France.<\/p>\n<p>To combat the perspiration I have started using some Headsweat products. Today I used the skull wrap (&#8220;doo rag&#8221;?). Early in the ride I was doubting the effectiveness of the wrap keeping sweat off my glasses but I did not get any on my glasses and I could feel a coolness on my head whenever I was moving. The air moving across the wrap&#8217;s fabric produces a cooling effect. If there was a test today&#8217;s high humidity and relative low temperature should qualify.<\/p>\n<p>There was nothing unusual about today&#8217;s ride other than the brief sprinkles. I did not see any other serious bicyclists.<\/p>\n<p>The route to Huffman went through Atascocita and Walden. The total miles were <strong>33.82<\/strong> at a 15.7 mph average speed. The wind was very low to calm.<\/p>\n<p>Mile markers:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>118.93 miles this week<\/li>\n<li>426 miles for July (290 miles to reach my goal for July)<\/li>\n<li>3801 miles year to date<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Links to <a title=\"http:\/\/connect.garmin.com\/modern\/activity\/544254961\" href=\"http:\/\/connect.garmin.com\/modern\/activity\/544254961\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Garmin Connect<\/strong><\/a> and <a title=\"http:\/\/ridewithgps.com\/trips\/3026422\" href=\"http:\/\/ridewithgps.com\/trips\/3026422\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>RideWithGPS<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow&#8217;s weather forecast: 90 degrees, 50% chance of rain. I was looking at the Tour de Paris but I am not sure I can drive there Saturday morning. I will need to check the distance and weather. No sense driving there to get rained on. I can do that at home. (288 miles from Kingwood to Paris. Too far to drive Saturday morning)<\/p>\n<p>[wppa type=&#8221;slide&#8221; album=&#8221;367&#8243; size=&#8221;auto&#8221;][\/wppa]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I completed the ride to Huffman today. Rather than go north I wanted to see if I could get to Huffman without riding in the rain. Technically that didn&#8217;t happen today since I rode in light sprinkles on the east <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2014\/07\/18\/humidity-to-spare\/\"><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":[3932,1350,1424,4699],"class_list":["post-25020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bike-ride","tag-atascocita-walden-huffman","tag-ride-report","tag-road","tag-stradalli-rp-14-carbon"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4tok-6vy","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25020","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=25020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25020\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}