{"id":29993,"date":"2015-06-15T14:15:03","date_gmt":"2015-06-15T19:15:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/?p=29993"},"modified":"2015-06-15T14:15:03","modified_gmt":"2015-06-15T19:15:03","slug":"rain-coming-our-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2015\/06\/15\/rain-coming-our-way\/","title":{"rendered":"Rain Coming Our Way"},"content":{"rendered":"

Supposedly a tropical storm is headed to Texas. The weekend weather forecast had rain for today but each day it moved to later in the day. I thought I wouldn’t get to bike today but the forecast changed. I wanted to ride today before it arrived so I left home at 9:59 and got back home at 1:03. The humidity was 74% making for a heavy perspiration ride. My gloves were soaked when I arrived at the Shell station at Cumberland Blvd. I took some paper towels and tried to dry them out some but my arms were so wet the sweat rolled down to the gloves. I got back on the bike and headed to the Stripes station for a break.<\/p>\n

I rode the “Oakhurst – Cumberland – Valley Ranch” route to stay above the weather to the south and east. The threatened rain was here yet but I didn’t want to take a chance plus I wanted to vary the routes. For variety I changed the first 7 miles biking through Forest Cove. This added to the overall ride coming up to 34.82 miles<\/strong> instead of the usual 32 miles or so.<\/p>\n

The ride was calm with no dog chases, smooth roads and no wet roads. The weather was overcast to mostly cloudy. The temperature was 89 when I finished and the wind was light at 3 to 5 mph from the NNE. A couple of times the sky looked threatening but only once did I get about 10 rain drops and it stopped. There was far more moisture from my sweating.<\/p>\n

For some reason I had difficulty getting my average speed up to 15.0 mph. I finally got there around the 23 mile mark and held it there even increasing it to 15.1 mph for a short period until I had to make some stops for traffic lights. Slowly building up speed from the stop pulled the average down and then I rode to get it back up. The final average speed was 14.8 mph.<\/p>\n

At the Stripes station I took a break to dry off some, eat snacks and drink Gatorade. I laid my gloves on some paper towels to dry them off some for the final 11 miles home.<\/p>\n

\"Porter<\/a>

Porter weather at the Stripes stop<\/p><\/div>\n

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