{"id":33665,"date":"2016-07-20T12:34:57","date_gmt":"2016-07-20T17:34:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/?p=33665"},"modified":"2016-07-21T08:19:09","modified_gmt":"2016-07-21T13:19:09","slug":"shorter-quicker-oakhurst-valley-ranch-bike-ride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2016\/07\/20\/shorter-quicker-oakhurst-valley-ranch-bike-ride\/","title":{"rendered":"Shorter Quicker “Oakhurst – Valley Ranch” Bike Ride"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today’s ride was shorter than usual at 28.30 miles<\/strong> on the “Oakhurst – Valley Ranch” route. I am time constrained today but I did manage to start biking at 9:57. It took a large amount of effort to leave then. The weather was not heated up yet but it was still hot and the humidity was around 70% making for a soggy ride. My jersey didn’t take long to get soaked. Every time I slowed or stopped sweat dripped down my arms and on to the pavement.<\/p>\n

Early in the ride while I was still navigating the Kingwood greenbelt trail I rounded a corner the same time as another biker was rounding it from the other direction. We both swerved the correct direction and avoided a crash.<\/p>\n

No rest stop today but I make a quick stop at the Valley Ranch Texaco to replenish my water bottle. Riding south on the I-69\/US59 service road the wind was mostly from the left rear and I rode quick enough to improve my average speed to 14.7 mph. I biked back into Kingwood through Woodridge Forest and Sherwood Trails finishing the ride at 12:00.<\/p>\n

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Today’s ride was shorter than usual at 28.30 miles on the “Oakhurst – Valley Ranch” route. I am time constrained today but I did manage to start biking at 9:57. It took a large amount of effort to leave then. …<\/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":[3683,1424,4699],"class_list":["post-33665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bike-ride","tag-oakhurst-valley-ranch","tag-road","tag-stradalli-rp-14-carbon"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4tok-8KZ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33665","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=33665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33665\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}