{"id":33940,"date":"2016-08-27T16:07:12","date_gmt":"2016-08-27T21:07:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/?p=33940"},"modified":"2016-08-27T16:07:12","modified_gmt":"2016-08-27T21:07:12","slug":"crossing-routes-with-other-riders-bike-ride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2016\/08\/27\/crossing-routes-with-other-riders-bike-ride\/","title":{"rendered":"Crossing Routes With Other Riders Bike Ride"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Riding the &#8220;Atascocita South &#8211; Walden &#8211; Huffman&#8221; route today I saw four other bikers, two of them twice. I thought my late start (11:56) would mean the other bikers would already be finished. I rode <strong>33.54 miles<\/strong> averaging 14.1 mph. This week the weather has moderated from the upper 90&#8217;s to 100 degrees of two weeks ago. It was in the mid 80&#8217;s most of the ride but that didn&#8217;t keep me from sweating heavily. The overcast sky kept the heat down as well. The wind from the NNE at 9 mph made the ride to Huffman tough and the ride home from there much easier.<\/p>\n<p>The rest stop at the Huffman Chevron came at 21.7 miles into the ride arriving at 1:36.<\/p>\n<div class=\"tiled-gallery type-rectangular tiled-gallery-unresized\" data-original-width=\"1200\" data-carousel-extra='{&quot;blog_id&quot;:1,&quot;permalink&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.texbiker.net\\\/blog\\\/2016\\\/08\\\/27\\\/crossing-routes-with-other-riders-bike-ride\\\/&quot;,&quot;likes_blog_id&quot;:1066296}' itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageGallery\" > <div class=\"gallery-row\" style=\"width: 1200px; height: 633px;\" data-original-width=\"1200\" data-original-height=\"633\" > <div class=\"gallery-group images-1\" style=\"width: 842px; height: 633px;\" data-original-width=\"842\" data-original-height=\"633\" > <div class=\"tiled-gallery-item tiled-gallery-item-large\" itemprop=\"associatedMedia\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/8-27-2016-Huffman-Chevron-e1472330849552.jpg?ssl=1\" border=\"0\" itemprop=\"url\"> <meta itemprop=\"width\" content=\"838\"> <meta itemprop=\"height\" content=\"629\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" data-attachment-id=\"33943\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/8-27-2016-Huffman-Chevron-e1472330849552.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"4032,3024\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Nexus 6P&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1472305017&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;4.67&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;69&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.00833333333333&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"8-27-2016 Huffman Chevron\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/8-27-2016-Huffman-Chevron-e1472330849552.jpg?fit=600%2C450&#038;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/8-27-2016-Huffman-Chevron-e1472330849552.jpg?fit=800%2C600&#038;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/8-27-2016-Huffman-Chevron-e1472330849552.jpg?w=838&#038;h=629&#038;ssl=1\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/8-27-2016-Huffman-Chevron-e1472330849552.jpg?w=4032&amp;ssl=1 4032w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/8-27-2016-Huffman-Chevron-e1472330849552.jpg?resize=640%2C480&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/8-27-2016-Huffman-Chevron-e1472330849552.jpg?resize=600%2C450&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/8-27-2016-Huffman-Chevron-e1472330849552.jpg?resize=800%2C600&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/8-27-2016-Huffman-Chevron-e1472330849552.jpg?resize=150%2C113&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/8-27-2016-Huffman-Chevron-e1472330849552.jpg?resize=400%2C300&amp;ssl=1 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/8-27-2016-Huffman-Chevron-e1472330849552.jpg?w=2400 2400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/8-27-2016-Huffman-Chevron-e1472330849552.jpg?w=3600 3600w\" width=\"838\" height=\"629\" loading=\"lazy\" data-original-width=\"838\" data-original-height=\"629\" itemprop=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/image\" title=\"8-27-2016 Huffman Chevron\" alt=\"8-27-2016 Huffman Chevron\" style=\"width: 838px; 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height: 629px;\" \/> <\/a> <\/div> <\/div> <!-- close group --> <\/div> <!-- close row --> <\/div>\n<p>While I was resting at the station the two bikers I saw earlier in Kingwood Greens pulled into the station and we chatted. At our first meeting I didn&#8217;t know they were behind me and I made a turn in front of them onto a side street. I rolled out of the station about 2:10 to head back to Kingwood. I finished the ride at 2:59.<\/p>\n<p>So far I biked <strong>685 miles<\/strong> in August toward my 800 mile goal. Earlier I thought reaching my goal would be hard but now I think I might get there.<\/p>\n<p>Rain chances increase tomorrow (Sunday). I may get rained out.<\/p>\n<p>[iframe http:\/\/rwgps-embeds.com\/trips\/10744550\/embed 600px 600px]<\/p>\n<p>[iframe https:\/\/www.strava.com\/activities\/691221781\/embed\/c9dfeef92d936c88fc7d4bdca8e66409d9e0bd1b 590px 405px]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Riding the &#8220;Atascocita South &#8211; Walden &#8211; Huffman&#8221; route today I saw four other bikers, two of them twice. I thought my late start (11:56) would mean the other bikers would already be finished. 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