{"id":49576,"date":"2019-05-27T13:06:53","date_gmt":"2019-05-27T18:06:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/?p=49576"},"modified":"2019-05-27T13:07:02","modified_gmt":"2019-05-27T18:07:02","slug":"memorial-day-bike-ride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2019\/05\/27\/memorial-day-bike-ride\/","title":{"rendered":"Memorial Day Bike Ride"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Memorial Day was a great day to start early on today’s bike ride, well early for me at 9:30 AM. I chose the “Oakhurst – Cumberland – Valley Ranch” route which covers streets I ride on other routes but in a different order. I biked 33.07 miles<\/strong>. May now totals 727.9 miles<\/strong>. My Canyon Endurace CF SLX now has 10,064 miles<\/strong> on it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I can remember when I was in grade school back in the 1950’s there would be a parade on Memorial Day. Many military people would march with flags and bands. Today that is a distant memory with no parades and some people not knowing why we have this holiday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not too long after I started the ride a house had three flags in the front yard and I stopped to take this photo. Up to when I stopped and got my phone out the flags were blowing in the wind but then the wind stopped.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Weather during the bike ride: start 85 (70% humidity), mostly cloudy, wind S 8 mph. Finish 90 (56% humidity), mostly cloudy, wind S 12 mph 17 mph gusts. The wind was not too bad compared to previous rides and my rested legs (no bike ride on Sunday) were able to power through. I got my average speed up to 14.0 mph and held it there until I got back into Kingwood and finished the ride at 12:01 PM.<\/p>\n\n\n\n