{"id":50607,"date":"2019-07-19T15:31:08","date_gmt":"2019-07-19T20:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/?p=50607"},"modified":"2019-07-19T15:31:14","modified_gmt":"2019-07-19T20:31:14","slug":"not-far-enough-north-to-be-cool-bike-ride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2019\/07\/19\/not-far-enough-north-to-be-cool-bike-ride\/","title":{"rendered":"Not Far Enough North To Be Cool Bike Ride"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A bike ride to the north for a change this week. My available time expanded so I chose the “Kingwood – SH 242 – Kingwood” route adding a few side streets to ride 40.01 miles<\/strong>. The ride started at 10:17 AM and I completed it at 1:45 PM.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Weather during the bike ride: start 90 (71% humidity, 79.6 dew point), mostly cloudy, wind S 9 mph. Finish 95 (55% humidity, 76.4 dew point), mostly cloudy, wind S 9 mph. With the heat and low humidity (for here anyway) this was a 3 water bottle ride. I stopped at the Shell station on Roman Forest Blvd., the Mobil station on FM 1485 in New Caney, and the Circle K store at FM 1314 and I-69\/US59 Porter. The first two I was there just long enough to fill my bottle but a the Circle K I took a rest break. During the break I took this photo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A gentle breeze cooled me down while I ate a blueberry crisp Clif bar and drank some blue PowerAde. to get to the finish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to Strava this was harder than your usual effort. Some physical data points:<\/p>\n\n\n\n