I mixed the streets and direction on today’s ride on the “Atascocita – Walden – Huffman” route. Starting out I went on some different streets to get around Kingwood High School because of the 2:12 start time. I haven’t rode on these for over a year. On the east side of Lake Houston I went north on East Lake Houston Parkway to Smith Road and south on FM2100 to the Huffman Chevron. Normally I ride the other direction but today I took FM2100 south from FM1960 to Old Atascocita Road and then west and back to FM1960 on Fairlake Drive. Rarely do I ride this direction although most of the other bikers I see are going this direction. Everything looks different going the opposite way and being on the other side of the road I watched for surface irregularities.<\/p>\n
The legs had difficulty whenever I was riding into the wind. I thought it was 6 mph or so but when I got home the weather showed 15 mph with 23 mph gusts. No wonder it took so much effort. This reverse route came to 32.19 miles<\/strong> with a 14.9 mph average speed. I did get the average speed up to 15.1 mph after riding west on FM1960 over Lake Houston with a nice tailwind. Two other bikers were out today along the route.<\/p>\n It was 84 degrees when I left home and 78 at the end. I decided to wear a long sleeve jersey just in case the wind was chilly; glad I did. Shorts were just right too.<\/p>\n Checking the mail at the end of the ride the new Continental Gartorskin Hardshell spare tire and tubes with 60mm stem arrived. Now I am prepared if I have a tire or tube problem. I did find out that a 700x23mm tire must be slightly smaller diameter than a 700x25mm. Inserting the 700×23 tire in the rear is much easier.<\/p>\n No biking on Thursday, taking my wife to the medical center. The weather forecast doesn’t look friendly for biking either: 89% chance of rain around noon, high of 68.<\/p>\n [iframe https:\/\/connect.garmin.com\/activity\/embed\/729110128 465px 500px] [iframe https:\/\/www.strava.com\/activities\/274092376\/embed\/6aae858e95c9638dc4df40437284f56ff28b0519 590px 405px]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I mixed the streets and direction on today’s ride on the “Atascocita – Walden – Huffman” route. Starting out I went on some different streets to get around Kingwood High School because of the 2:12 start time. I haven’t rode …<\/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":[3932,1424,4699],"class_list":["post-29267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bike-ride","tag-atascocita-walden-huffman","tag-road","tag-stradalli-rp-14-carbon"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4tok-7C3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29267","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=29267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29267\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}