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This picture says it all about Texas biking in July: hot, windy and dry. Our appetite for ice must be high for the Stripes station to need a portable ice house. The Gatorade helped to hydrate and cool me before I took off to finish the ride.<\/p>\n
“New Caney – Roman Forest Loop – Valley Ranch” route was my choice today. I checked my last ride on this route and it was 39.63 miles so I figured today I could add a little to it to reach 40+ miles. I added just enough to ride 40.14 miles<\/strong> bumping July’s miles to 421<\/strong> towards my goal of 765 miles<\/strong>. I rode through Tavola using the loop I discovered and then into Roman Forest. By the time I got back to I-69\/US59 I was 22 miles into the ride. It was hot and I needed to stop at the New Caney Mobil at FM1485 for ice and water. From there I rode to Stripes for a longer rest where I took the picture above.<\/p>\n The shade, Gatorade and food at Stripes helped me to recover for the 11+ miles to home. The Elemnt screen information when I arrived at Stripes.<\/p>\n The wind helped me to get to Roman Forest Blvd. but it was a strong hindrance on the return trip south to Kingwood. The 15.3 mph average speed I built up riding north slowly eroded on the south facing ride. During the ride I enjoyed the short rides in the shade. Roman Forest Blvd heading east put me in the shade for almost a mile.<\/p>\n I was slow to leave this morning (11:26) due to watching stage 11 of TdF but I got home sooner than I expected (2:49). So far I biked 127 miles this week, averaging 42.3 miles on each ride.<\/p>\n Hot weather and dry continues tomorrow so I will be biking. While I stop during a ride I have at least one person ask if it is too hot to ride. I tell them it is not too bad as long as I am moving.<\/p>\n [iframe http:\/\/ridewithgps.com\/trips\/9934274\/embed 600px 600px]<\/p>\n [iframe https:\/\/www.strava.com\/activities\/639960818\/embed\/d24cda41d83a2dad4b6e1f87b8e7dbc94e76fe90 590px 405px]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This picture says it all about Texas biking in July: hot, windy and dry. Our appetite for ice must be high for the Stripes station to need a portable ice house. The Gatorade helped to hydrate and cool me before …<\/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":[5291,1424,4699],"class_list":["post-33605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bike-ride","tag-new-caney-roman-forest-loop-valley-ranch","tag-road","tag-stradalli-rp-14-carbon"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4tok-8K1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33605","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=33605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33605\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![](\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/FwMQ1M1jBNJ-uJbC5FRdJAOZPP-qfZg0Cuv9dHg4YVV69YP5sL1jQpEnIfkdpLhRP4kjqUDl5SYWhdbXHSnHL80hJ19AZXOcGXDV_PUi2JsbuT2ca_XrCjS_Amm5Do_tOzSgtW1CwdeaDP54rCogfWydhrIYgjBbfJqzU2IlomiH406NsJpraQhriETOFSFlnfFYCp3Mt92T-NfxswRbpIUDMpqkRTWtkI2njtMnzpgcFkEh71Ofsb6GR_p5IzAO68WNGY6eIg0sTAuOPsOMh9pGi-f6jKSkxB-Drk6y4UZpwkueme4j9p7jSZ_VA9KTOy4oQjSE4-y8X8bbaGIt3a335d_C6BSJzK4qBFp2Y3u4eu4rw6kkNgYN_zQKSh6OKy3AOraN1UVLoxtMInMcRdWb6seMj3tFFvta-B_pDrBoCBNVo2WQsNmoIrqV0hkCiu4wQNaWG3biX7LSAj45YEaponSXD0KKoX7GvLy3YUmBZ7-35CGmMqaYKOuxskPOosQB8_jZLL_v63AlaOy1VRFRCfjkndGvKw3Za0r0CP8d4PCGfJL1Rdi3zn4qWwWcC8dj-emMOZx5n_EuXQQx8DjV6wKiYzc=w1652-h1235-no\")
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