{"id":50793,"date":"2019-08-09T15:57:57","date_gmt":"2019-08-09T20:57:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/?p=50793"},"modified":"2019-08-09T15:58:05","modified_gmt":"2019-08-09T20:58:05","slug":"counter-the-high-heat-index-with-ice-water-and-stops-bike-ride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2019\/08\/09\/counter-the-high-heat-index-with-ice-water-and-stops-bike-ride\/","title":{"rendered":"Counter The High Heat Index With Ice, Water, and Stops Bike Ride"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Each ride this week has been 40+ miles. That is good because yesterday (Thursday) my commitment didn&#8217;t allow time to ride. Today I chose the &#8220;May Park Community Center &#8211; Huffman&#8221; route and biked <strong>42.7 mile<\/strong>s. The week now totals <strong>170.1 miles<\/strong>, setting the stage for Saturday&#8217;s bike ride to get the week to 200+ miles. August is advancing to my 800 mile with <strong>278.34 miles<\/strong> so far, 35% of the way there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The intense heat was evident on today&#8217;s bike ride with the heat index at 105 (airport) or 114 (at my home weather station). Weather while I rode: start 94 (60% humidity, 78.4 dew point), mostly cloudy, wind S 10 mph. Finish 99 (48% humidity, 75.8 dew point), mostly cloudy, wind S 10 mph. To combat thirst I stopped at the Chevron station just west of Lake Houston and the May Community Center where I found the ice machine thanks to the lady at the front desk. I took a short break at the center to cool some, eat some cheese crackers, and drink cold water. The final stop for water and ice was at McDonald&#8217;s in Kingwood&#8217;s Town Center.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I started earlier today leaving at 10:46 AM to get in front of the heat but not really. That allowed me to finish at 2:16 PM, more than an hour early compared to the last two rides this week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yesterday since I didn&#8217;t have time to ride I waxed my chain on the Canyon bike. The last time I waxed it was 6\/9\/19 over 2,000 miles ago. It was starting to make complaining noises.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The GoPro camera accompanied me on the ride. Below is the video.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Bike Ride May Park Community Center - Huffman 8\/9\/2019\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wzoFtr3e5zo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I rode the Canyon Endurace CF SLX south and east through Atascocita, Walden, Huffman before going east on FM 1960 and briefly into Liberty County. I don&#8217;t ride in Liberty County much and the FM 1960 chip and seal surface doesn&#8217;t welcome me either.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No other cyclists were crazy enough to be riding in the heat, at least along my route.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Luce Bayou extension project work on FM 2100 north of Huffman that had a short detour without a shoulder is gone with a shoulder back in place making for safer riding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Saturday I will start even earlier to catch other cyclists and avoid the heat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-jetpack-markdown\"><h2>SportTracks Bike Ride Summary<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sporttracks.mobi\/activity\/22285644\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"665\" data-attachment-id=\"50792\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/8-9-2019-sporttracks-bike-ride-summary\/\" 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miles. That is good because yesterday (Thursday) my commitment didn&#8217;t allow time to ride. Today I chose the &#8220;May Park Community Center &#8211; Huffman&#8221; route and biked 42.7 miles. The week now totals <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2019\/08\/09\/counter-the-high-heat-index-with-ice-water-and-stops-bike-ride\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/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":[5324,5205,1424],"class_list":["post-50793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bike-ride","tag-canyon-endurace-cf-slx","tag-may-park-community-center-huffman","tag-road"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4tok-ddf","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50793","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=50793"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50794,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50793\/revisions\/50794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}