{"id":45122,"date":"2018-10-02T16:49:53","date_gmt":"2018-10-02T21:49:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/?p=45122"},"modified":"2018-10-02T16:49:53","modified_gmt":"2018-10-02T21:49:53","slug":"no-rain-as-wind-whips-across-grass-bike-ride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2018\/10\/02\/no-rain-as-wind-whips-across-grass-bike-ride\/","title":{"rendered":"No Rain As Wind Whips Across Grass Bike Ride"},"content":{"rendered":"

No rain during today’s bike ride. In fact it was sunny and warm while I rode the “Stroker Road – Huffman” route for 43.23 miles<\/strong>. I added a couple of extra streets to get the mileage to that level in order to almost reach 10% of my 700 mile goal for October with 69.46 miles<\/strong> so far. I left at 11:32 am after watching a race in Belgium, Binche-Chimay-Binche M\u00c3\u00a9morial Frank Vandenbroucke<\/span>. Earlier the temperature dipped below 70 when I first got up. But the forecast said to expect upper 80’s.<\/p>\n

Speaking of miles, my Canyon bike now shows 6037 miles<\/strong> since I bought it and started riding February 27th of this year. My year to date mileage is 6670 miles<\/strong> with the difference on other bikes. I am 130 miles<\/strong> away from reaching my goal for the year.<\/p>\n

Weather during the bike ride: start 88 (77% humidity), mostly cloudy, wind SE 7 mph. Finish 88 (66% humidity), mostly cloudy, wind SE 13 mph.<\/p>\n

The 13 mph wind made riding to the east and south difficult and the hardest section was on Old Atascocita Road east of FM 2100 where the land is flat with nothing to break the wind. Turning right onto Ramsey Road didn’t help and I fought the wind all the way to Stroker Road. At 23.3 miles into the ride I stopped and took these two photos.<\/p>\n\n\t\t