{"id":50957,"date":"2019-09-14T12:38:47","date_gmt":"2019-09-14T17:38:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/?p=50957"},"modified":"2019-09-14T12:38:52","modified_gmt":"2019-09-14T17:38:52","slug":"love-bugs-many-cyclists-fall-like-weather-bike-ride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2019\/09\/14\/love-bugs-many-cyclists-fall-like-weather-bike-ride\/","title":{"rendered":"Love Bugs, Many Cyclists, Fall Like Weather Bike Ride"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Wheels rolled early (for me anyway) at 8:03 AM as I set off on the &#8220;Atascocita &#8211; Huffman &#8211; Walden&#8221; route to see other bikers. The ride went for 35.41 miles. September now totals 225.45 miles, 32% of the way to my 700 mile goal. Based on the 14 days so far I should be at 327 miles, or 47% of my the goal. I am getting closer but I need to ride more than 24 miles per day to make up the deficit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Weather during the ride: start 73 (91% humidity, 70.2 dew point), a few clouds, wind calm. Finish 95 (49% humidity, 72.6 dew point), a few clouds, wind NE 8 mph. I appreciated the arm sleeves at the start for a couple of miles until it warmed up. Fall is in the air though.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Strava tells me this ride was easier than my usual effort. My average speed held at 14.0 mph for most the ride from FM 2100 in Huffman back to Kingwood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When I stopped on Old Atascoctia Road to shoot some of the videos I spotted the first &#8220;love bugs&#8221; and they made a cameo appearance in a segment of 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-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Atascocita Huffman Walden Bike Ride 9\/14\/2019\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wtYR2H8nNs4?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>Towards the end of the video a group of bikers rode south on W. Lake Houston Parkway while I was stopped on Upper Lake Drive. I almost missed them because I was behind a Jeep. Following the group was a VeloFix van, the first one I saw in Kingwood. I wonder if it covers the area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The video sums up what I saw on the ride. 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src=\"https:\/\/www.strava.com\/activities\/2708118709\/embed\/e0d92a1c44abd26434a2e0adbbce66fa34be8cad\" width=\"590\" height=\"405\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-jetpack-markdown\"><h2>Strava Year Progressions YTD Bike Ride Miles<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/9-14-2019-Strava-Year-Progressions-Graph.jpg?ssl=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1038\" data-attachment-id=\"50955\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/9-14-2019-strava-year-progressions-graph\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/9-14-2019-Strava-Year-Progressions-Graph.jpg?fit=1330%2C1150&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1330,1150\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" 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anyway) at 8:03 AM as I set off on the &#8220;Atascocita &#8211; Huffman &#8211; Walden&#8221; route to see other bikers. The ride went for 35.41 miles. September now totals 225.45 miles, 32% of the way <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2019\/09\/14\/love-bugs-many-cyclists-fall-like-weather-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":[5307,5324,1424],"class_list":["post-50957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bike-ride","tag-atascocita-huffman-walden","tag-canyon-endurace-cf-slx","tag-road"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4tok-dfT","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50957","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=50957"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50958,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50957\/revisions\/50958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}