The blue sky tried to hang around one more day but as I made my way along the “Atascocita South – Walden – Huffman” route clouds moved in from the south. The strong SE wind pushed the clouds in from the gulf and made biking to Huffman tough. The ride started at 11:27 AM because I was slow to get ready.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Biking the route produced 34.77 miles<\/strong> improving my October total to 617.17 miles<\/strong>, 83 miles<\/strong> short of my goal. Year to date I biked 6,863 miles<\/strong> exceeding my goal by 63 miles. For the week I pedaled 125 miles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Weather as I was biking: start 80 (68% humidity, 68.6 dew point), a few clouds, wind E 13 mph. Finish 80 (69% humidity, 68.8 dew point), mostly cloudy, wind SE 16 mph. I wore a long sleeve jersey under my short sleeve one because I thought the wind chill might make me cold. While the sun was warm the shade and wind combination had a chill to it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A headwind challenged my legs from the start until I made the left turn onto FM 2100 from Old Atascocita Road. Riding north on FM 2100 gave my legs some relief with a helping tailwind whenever I hit an open area. Earlier as I rode across Lake Houston out in the open I felt the effect of passing traffic as they sucked the headwind with them and gave me some time to pedal with less resistance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I didn’t take as many clips during the bike ride. I missed a couple of other “casual” bikers as we passed but I figured showing the same streets gets boring. Less video, more variety.<\/p>\n\n\n\n