{"id":33823,"date":"2016-08-10T15:57:15","date_gmt":"2016-08-10T20:57:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/?p=33823"},"modified":"2016-08-10T15:57:15","modified_gmt":"2016-08-10T20:57:15","slug":"bike-ride-passing-through-the-spot-a-bicyclist-died","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2016\/08\/10\/bike-ride-passing-through-the-spot-a-bicyclist-died\/","title":{"rendered":"Bike Ride Passing Through the Spot A Bicyclist Died"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday a bicyclist was killed on FM1960 in Huffman. My ride today took me to Huffman on the “May Park Community Center – Huffman” route. My wife was concerned that I was biking in the area but I assured her I have biked there many times. Traffic has always been considerate of me and I haven’t had any problems. I passed through the accident area after I left the Huffman Chevron on the way back to Kingwood. I looked for evidence of the tragedy but I could find anything. The bicyclist has not been identified as I write this. I prayed for the driver and the family of the biker.<\/p>\n

According to a weather blog I follow the peak of summer is this week in our area. The weather is delivering with heat indexes at 110+ and sunny days. The light wind doesn’t offer much relief in the shade. It was 97 degrees when I got home after biking and the heat index was 111. Thanks to the light breeze I was able to ride at 18 to 19 mph during the ride on FM1960 to the Liberty County line. What it looked like at the Liberty County line.<\/p>\n

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I believe the 704 on the FM1960 road sign pole is the miles from the sign to the west most point in Texas. My riding in Liberty County was short, I crossed the line and rode to the west bound shoulder back into Harris County. From this point I rode west turning onto Huffman – Eastgate Raod to ride by Hargrave High School on the way to the May Community Center on Wolf Road. I stopped there to refill my water bottle for the 4 mile ride to the Huffman Chevron where I took a rest break.<\/p>\n

Arriving at the Chevron station at 1:33 after biking 27.8 miles out of the total 39.14 miles<\/strong> I rode today. The weather while I was resting shows the heat and lack of a breeze.<\/p>\n

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The Chevron was still out of the blue PowerAde fountain drink so I sat down in the shade and drank ice water from my bottle while I eating the Clif bar and snack crackers I brought with me. As I was sitting there a few people commented on how hot it was to be biking. I agreed but said it was better when I was moving. I left the station about 2:10 to finish the ride to Kingwood. I finished the ride at 2:56 relieved to go inside where it was cooler.<\/p>\n

I started the ride later than I wanted to (11:25) because technology continued to fail. My home weather station is still off line, Quicken cannot download from my back because the bank’s computer system had a problem yesterday and trying to talk to someone took a long time on hold. Tomorrow must be better.<\/p>\n

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