{"id":37077,"date":"2017-09-17T15:56:19","date_gmt":"2017-09-17T20:56:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/?p=37077"},"modified":"2017-09-17T15:56:19","modified_gmt":"2017-09-17T20:56:19","slug":"beautiful-sunday-bike-ride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2017\/09\/17\/beautiful-sunday-bike-ride\/","title":{"rendered":"Beautiful Sunday Bike Ride"},"content":{"rendered":"

I rode the Blue Norcross AL on today’s bike ride on the “Oakhurst – Valley Ranch” course for a total of 27 miles<\/strong>. With those miles the total for the week was 244.4 miles<\/strong>, just .5 of a mile short of the equaling the most miles for a week this year. Maybe I should’ve lapped the block a couple of times to break that record. I now need 287 miles the rest of September to reach 6,000 for the year. Once I reach that level I should be able to ride 7,000+ miles by the end of the year.<\/p>\n

The ride started late (12:44 PM) because I worked on my wife’s email program to fix a problem and after church. By then the temperature was 91 with 65% humidity but the wind was calm which was nice in a way except for drying up sweat whenever I stopped. The sky was mostly cloudy. I finished the ride at 2:50 PM and there wasn’t any change in the weather.<\/p>\n

Making a quick stop at the Valley Ranch Texaco to refill my water bottle was it for today. A photo before I got back on the bike.<\/p>\n

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The building has had several fast food restaurants but all have closed. Today as I was riding out of the parking lot there was a sign saying “Coming Soon – Dickey’s BBQ”. They also had a sign on the door to hire workers for the restaurant. Maybe this one will survive?<\/p>\n

Leaving the Texaco station I rode south along I-69\/US59 on the service road to Northpark Drive. I rode north and then east through Woodridge Forest and then into Kingwood to finish the ride.<\/p>\n

No bike ride tomorrow (Monday) but I should be back biking on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Link to the Strava ride summary<\/a><\/h3>\n