{"id":29359,"date":"2015-04-06T15:51:12","date_gmt":"2015-04-06T20:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/?p=29359"},"modified":"2015-04-06T15:51:12","modified_gmt":"2015-04-06T20:51:12","slug":"monday-ride-to-huffman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2015\/04\/06\/monday-ride-to-huffman\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday Ride to Huffman"},"content":{"rendered":"

The weather warmed up compared to yesterday, Easter Sunday. It hovered around 60 degrees then and threatened light rain. Today it was 82 degrees when I finished the ride at 3:06 and the sky was mostly cloudy. I did get a few sprinkles while I was on Fairlake Drive on the east side of Lake Houston but it last 2 or 3 minutes. Looking at the weather before I left home at 12:10 the wind was going to be a problem. It was from the SSE at 17 mph with 22 mph gusts. I could tell the wind was strong as I headed south on the usual “Atascocita – Walden – Huffman” route. I had difficulty getting above 17 mph but it was residential streets until I reached the west entrance to FM1960 over Lake Houston. I shifted to a smaller gear on the rear cassette as I rode east. I was able to ride at 19 to 20 mph and slowly increased my average speed. I never got it above 15.0 mph on the 32.86 mile<\/strong> route. For a long time after leaving the Huffman Chevron headed home I kept the average speed at 14.9 mph thanks to some side wind. Once I got into Kingwood the starts and stops pulled it down to 14.8 mph for the overall ride.<\/p>\n

Several othr bikers were out. I saw some within the first 2 miles in Elmgrove Village in Kingwood. Later on the W. Lake Houston Parkway bridge over the San Jacinto another biker caught up with. I was on the main road shoulder and he was on the sidewalk to my right. We exchanged waves and stayed together for a few hundred feet until he had to slow for a jogger.<\/p>\n

No dogs on today’s ride. I don’t miss them.\u00c2\u00a0 Tomorrow the weather looks favorable for biking: 86 degrees and overcast.<\/p>\n

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Weather while at the Huffman Chevron<\/p><\/div>\n

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