{"id":34299,"date":"2016-10-22T15:26:17","date_gmt":"2016-10-22T20:26:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/?p=34299"},"modified":"2016-10-22T15:26:17","modified_gmt":"2016-10-22T20:26:17","slug":"46-degrees-slows-this-bike-ride-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2016\/10\/22\/46-degrees-slows-this-bike-ride-start\/","title":{"rendered":"46 Degrees Slows This Bike Ride Start"},"content":{"rendered":"

The cool front hung around overnight delaying my ride some today. When I got up this morning my home weather station showed 46 degrees. I can’t remember the last time it was that cool this year. By 11:30 it warmed up to the low 70’s and when I started the bike ride at 12:06 it was 74 degrees. Still I chose to wear a long sleeve jersey under a short sleeve jersey. At times on the “New Caney – Tavola – Valley Ranch” route this made me sweat and other times it kept me warm. Earlier this week I stopped at the Bike Lane store near The Woodlands and they had a 50% off sale on all long sleeve jerseys and jackets. I almost bought a couple of jerseys but thought my wardrobe was well supplied but now maybe I should’ve added a couple to the closet.<\/p>\n

Today I biked 34.45 miles<\/strong> pushing me past my 600 mile goal for October. With 9 potential biking days I could hit 700+ miles for October. The weather for the next week looks warmer and dry which means great bike riding. Wind on today’s ride came from the north at 6 mph. This helped me get my overall average speed up to 15.5 mph for a long stretch of the ride.<\/p>\n

I made a quick rest stop at the Porter Stripes station at FM1314 to eat a Kashi Trail Mix Bar (new recipe, new packaging) and some animal crackers. I washed this down with water which I did not drink much of before stopping because of the coolness. The Elemnt screen shortly after I stopped at Stripes and the weather while I ate.<\/p>\n

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Leaving Stripes before 2 PM meant I only stayed 20 minutes, a short stop. From there the wind seemed to slow me down some but I still maintained the 15.5 mph average speed until I got back into Kingwood. I finished the ride at 2:41.<\/p>\n

Tomorrow I think I will dust off the Motobecane 700HT MTB and ride the Kingwood trails. A change of venue and bike will be nice.<\/p>\n

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The cool front hung around overnight delaying my ride some today. When I got up this morning my home weather station showed 46 degrees. I can’t remember the last time it was that cool this year. By 11:30 it warmed …<\/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":[5287,1424,4699],"class_list":["post-34299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bike-ride","tag-new-caney-tavola-valley-ranch","tag-road","tag-stradalli-rp-14-carbon"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4tok-8Vd","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34299","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=34299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34299\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}