Waiting until 12:11 pm to start today’s bike I felt somewhat confident that the rain chances of coming down while I biked decreased. Selecting the “Atascocita – Walden – Huffman” route I set out with the sky covered with clouds, some of them quite dark. But there a couple of holes opened up every once in a while and I saw blue sky which lasted only a few minutes. Part of the reason for the late start was me watching stage 17 of the Vuelta a Espana where the sun shined a lot and the mountain climb hit 24% near the finish. I think I will take the rain clouds over 24% climbs.<\/p>\n
The plan was to bike at least 28 miles (4% of my goal for September) to get back on schedule but thanks to the clouds keeping their rain I rode 35.63 miles<\/strong> (5% of of my goal). This puts me at 287.28 miles<\/strong> for September or 41% of my goal of 700 miles.<\/p>\n Weather during the bike ride: start 81 (85% humidity), mostly cloudy, wind SE 8 mph. Finish 85 (73% humidity), mostly cloudy, wind SE 8 mph. The humidity increase from last week makes for lots of perspiration even though it is not so hot.<\/p>\n As I rode east of Lake Houston the clouds looked threatening sometimes. I stopped on Old Atascocita Road east of FM 2100 and took these photos. The blue I wrote about earlier peeks through on the first photo looking to the northwest but the second photo to the northeast is not so generous.<\/p>\n\n\t\t