{"id":30370,"date":"2015-07-24T15:51:28","date_gmt":"2015-07-24T20:51:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/?p=30370"},"modified":"2015-07-24T15:51:28","modified_gmt":"2015-07-24T20:51:28","slug":"missed-the-amtrak-train","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2015\/07\/24\/missed-the-amtrak-train\/","title":{"rendered":"Missed the Amtrak Train"},"content":{"rendered":"

Repeat the route. That’s what I did today. I changed some of the streets but the route still is “Atascocita – Walden – Huffman”. In my quest for my monthly goal I am trying to ride 32+ miles each day for the rest of July. I rode 33.68 miles<\/strong> today. Changing the early the part of the route I was able to improve my average speed and got to 14.0 mph before leaving Kingwood. Normally I have to overcome the slower start speeds after I get out of Kingwood. My legs felt good today and I was able to ride at 15 to 16 mph early on plus the streets I chose did not have many stops. The stops slow me down and then I have accelerate back up. The Garmin 510 is not kind to me and reduces my average speed. Today marks the 25th time I biked this route name. (Yesterday I said it was 22 times but the Golden Cheetah software has the route name listed twice and I forgot to count both listings.) A comparison of the 25 rides.<\/p>\n

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I am up to 675.85 miles for July. The goal is 834. Year to date I rode 3892 miles.<\/p>\n

Hot temperatures remain in place and the light wind (7 mph from the south) is like a convection oven. Humidity was 41% at my home weather station, 102 degrees there too. George Bush Airport was only 97 degrees. Screenshots while I stopped in Huffman for a break.<\/p>\n

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The little red triangle is a weather alert for high temperature and heat index above 103.<\/p>\n

Leaving home at 11:39 I thought I had a chance to meet the Amtrak train when it passed through Huffman. I almost did. I was riding north on FM2100 around the lake Houston Methodist Church when the train went across FM2100. I could see it about 1\/2 mile away. Earlier when I crossed the tracks on Old Atascocita Road I should have waited for the train to arrive but I thought I had enough time to get to FM2100 and FM1960. Around 7 miles into the ride I stopped for a phone call. If I had not done that I might have been waiting on the train in Huffman. The train timing in Huffman is not consistent though. I have been there at 1:30 and the train passes by. Missing the train I pulled into the Chevron station to dry off some, eat and drink cold Powerade. I was there about 35 minutes. I got back home at 2:40.<\/p>\n

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Repeat the route. That’s what I did today. I changed some of the streets but the route still is “Atascocita – Walden – Huffman”. In my quest for my monthly goal I am trying to ride 32+ miles each day …<\/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":[3932,5206,5243,1424,4699],"class_list":["post-30370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bike-ride","tag-atascocita-walden-huffman","tag-bicycling-texas","tag-cycling-texas","tag-road","tag-stradalli-rp-14-carbon"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4tok-7TQ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30370","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=30370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30370\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}