{"id":33586,"date":"2016-07-11T16:14:07","date_gmt":"2016-07-11T21:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/?p=33586"},"modified":"2016-07-11T16:14:07","modified_gmt":"2016-07-11T21:14:07","slug":"rough-stretch-of-road-bike-ride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2016\/07\/11\/rough-stretch-of-road-bike-ride\/","title":{"rendered":"Rough Stretch of Road Bike Ride"},"content":{"rendered":"

The TdF was on a rest day so I thought I would get an early start on today’s ride but I didn’t make it. I left home at 11:32 to ride the “SR242 – Old Houston Rd – FM1314” route. I first thought I would ride a longer version of this route but i changed my mind and rode 43.50 miles<\/strong>. The weather was hot again: 94 degrees, scattered clouds and the wind from the south at 14 mph. The wind was big help riding to SH 242 and most of the way to Old Houston Road. Once I turned onto Old Houston Road it was in my face and causing the pedaling effort to increase quite a bit.<\/p>\n

There was a quick stop at the Chevron station at FM1485 and SH 242 for ice and water. As I rode away from the station on SH 242 I saw a big flashing sign warning of lane closures at night> I wasn’t sure what work was going on but shortly I saw the shoulder and the west bound lane showed signs of grinding the old asphalt up. The surface got real rough with me bumping along until Old Houston Road. Once I was on Old Houston Road I wondered which was worse, the rough road or the strong wind blowing in my face. The hot wind did try to dry the sweat. Not long after I was riding on Old Houston Road a pickup stopped in front and the lady rolled her window down to ask if I was doing okay. I said I was doing great and she drove on.<\/p>\n

I stopped at the Shell Station at Cumberland for a rest break and to refill my water bottle. Before I went inside I took a picture of my Elemnt screen. Later I took shots of the weather.<\/p>\n

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After a 35 minute or so rest I was back on the bike riding the last 14+ miles home. I got there at 3:19.<\/p>\n

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The TdF was on a rest day so I thought I would get an early start on today’s ride but I didn’t make it. I left home at 11:32 to ride the “SR242 – Old Houston Rd – FM1314” route. …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[1424,3976,4699],"class_list":["post-33586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bike-ride","tag-road","tag-sr242-old-houston-rd-fm1314","tag-stradalli-rp-14-carbon"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4tok-8JI","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33586","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=33586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33586\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}