{"id":53686,"date":"2020-07-23T15:14:09","date_gmt":"2020-07-23T20:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/?p=53686"},"modified":"2020-07-23T15:14:11","modified_gmt":"2020-07-23T20:14:11","slug":"closing-in-on-my-goal-heat-and-humidity-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2020\/07\/23\/closing-in-on-my-goal-heat-and-humidity-return\/","title":{"rendered":"Closing In On My Goal, Heat and Humidity Return"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube aligncenter 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=\"Closing In On My Goal, Heat and Humidity Return Bike Ride to Roman Forest\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1knee_AXDVI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">No rain delay on today&#8217;s bike ride as the Canyon Endurace bike and I started at 10:01 AM. After biking to the south yesterday I alternated to the north on the &#8220;New Caney &#8211; Roman Forest &#8211; Valley Ranch&#8221; route. The bike ride covered <strong>41.18 miles<\/strong> moving the week&#8217;s total to <strong>117.09 miles<\/strong> and July to <strong>712.73 miles<\/strong>. I need <strong>88<\/strong> more miles to reach my goal for July which looks possible with the number of days left. Today was the 6th time to ride this route in 2020, 4 times on the Canyon Endurace and 2 times on the Lynskey R300. A summary of the 6 rides is below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Weather today returned to a more July like level with heat and humidity. Weather conditions at the start and 1:21 PM finish: start 86 (83% humidity, 80 dew point), partly cloudy, wind NE 5 mph. finish 92 (65% humidity, 78.1 dew point), partly cloudy, wind NE 10 mph. The headwind getting to Roman Forest slowed me some but the return trip to Kingwood rode faster thanks to a tailwind. I improved my average speed to 14.0 mph on the ride south. Pedaling effort dropped and I shifted to a higher gear. Weather conditions will get wetter starting Friday late afternoon and into Saturday. I plan on biking Friday before that but Saturday may be rained out as a tropical storm comes ashore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The rear tire patch from Tuesday continues to show no signs of leaking with a firm squeeze and solid ride over bumps. I removed the revised GoPro mount from the below the Bolt computer mount using my hands as the holder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Year to date bike rides summary on today&#8217;s route.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/7-23-2020-YTD-Bike-Rides-Summary-Todays-Route.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"303\" data-attachment-id=\"53682\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/7-23-2020-ytd-bike-rides-summary-todays-route\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/7-23-2020-YTD-Bike-Rides-Summary-Todays-Route.jpg?fit=1880%2C475&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1880,475\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"7-23-2020 YTD Bike Rides Summary Today&amp;#8217;s Route\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;7-23-2020 YTD Bike Rides Summary Today&amp;#8217;s Route&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/7-23-2020-YTD-Bike-Rides-Summary-Todays-Route.jpg?fit=600%2C152&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/7-23-2020-YTD-Bike-Rides-Summary-Todays-Route.jpg?fit=800%2C202&amp;ssl=1\" 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After biking to the south yesterday I alternated to the north on the &#8220;New Caney &#8211; Roman Forest &#8211; Valley Ranch&#8221; route. <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2020\/07\/23\/closing-in-on-my-goal-heat-and-humidity-return\/\"><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":[5324,4342,2492],"class_list":["post-53686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bike-ride","tag-canyon-endurace-cf-slx","tag-new-caney-roman-forest-valley-ranch","tag-road-biking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4tok-dXU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53686","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=53686"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53687,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53686\/revisions\/53687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}