{"id":39783,"date":"2018-03-14T16:35:34","date_gmt":"2018-03-14T21:35:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/?p=39783"},"modified":"2018-03-14T16:35:34","modified_gmt":"2018-03-14T21:35:34","slug":"a-patch-of-wildflowers-bike-ride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2018\/03\/14\/a-patch-of-wildflowers-bike-ride\/","title":{"rendered":"A Patch of Wildflowers Bike Ride"},"content":{"rendered":"

I didn’t think I would ride over 38 miles on today’s ride but I ended up biking 40.21 miles<\/strong>. This is the first time biking the “Kingwood – Splendora – Kingwood” route this year and the longest ride this month. I almost matched the longest ride this year at 41.32 miles<\/strong>. This improved March to 398.9 miles<\/strong> leaving 186.1 miles<\/strong> to reach my goal for the month.<\/p>\n

Along the northbound route I spotted the first patch of wildflowers this spring. There have been individual wildflowers but not a patch about 3 ft x 3 ft. All of the sunshine and 60 to 70 degree days probably brought them out. I almost stopped and took a photo but I thought I would see more later but no other patches spotted.<\/p>\n

The ride started at 12:46 pm. I waited some hoping the temperature would get to 70 but I decided to not wait longer. The weather: start 69 (38% humidity), finish 71 (33% humidity), a few clouds, wind E 7 mph. I decided to replicate yesterday’s wardrobe since it was comfortable. That 7 mph wind had a bite to it when I was in the shade or the front side of me was not facing the sun.<\/p>\n

No other cyclists along the route but there were a number of casual bicyclists in Kingwood.<\/p>\n

Since the wind was not that strong I was able to build u my average speed to 15.4 mph and hold it there until I started back into Kingwood. When I turned back to the south in Splendora I expected the wind to become a headwind but it was from the left I was able to keep my speed at 18 to 20 mph most of the time. I finished the ride at 3:33 pm with the sun shining brightly.<\/p>\n

Thursday the clouds come back but the temperature bumps up a few degrees. Rain is at a 10% chance. Sounds like a good biking day.<\/p>\n

SportTracks Bike Ride Summary<\/h2>\n

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Strava Bike Ride Summary<\/a><\/h2>\n

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I didn’t think I would ride over 38 miles on today’s ride but I ended up biking 40.21 miles. This is the first time biking the “Kingwood – Splendora – Kingwood” route this year and the longest ride this month. …<\/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":[5324,5299,1424],"class_list":["post-39783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bike-ride","tag-canyon-endurace-cf-slx","tag-kingwood-splendora-kingwood","tag-road"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4tok-alF","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39783","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=39783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39783\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}