{"id":5400,"date":"2010-07-31T13:49:40","date_gmt":"2010-07-31T18:49:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/?p=5400"},"modified":"2010-07-31T13:51:01","modified_gmt":"2010-07-31T18:51:01","slug":"a-country-saturday-morning-july-31st-bike-ride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2010\/07\/31\/a-country-saturday-morning-july-31st-bike-ride\/","title":{"rendered":"A Country Saturday Morning &#8211; July 31st Bike Ride"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday in rural southeast Texas is refreshing. Traffic is light to none, silence is present most of the time, and the scenery is great. Today&#8217;s ride took me to Splendora and then Grangerland before heading back to Porter and home. At the Splendora Chevron station 5 or 6 bikers were pulling in as I was getting ready to ride to Grangerland on FM2090. They were from Kingwood like me. After that I did not meet any other bikers.<\/p>\n<p>Weather today is supposed to hit 99 degrees with clear skies. I wanted to get riding early today to beat the heat. I left home at 7:05 AM (I can&#8217; seem to get out the door before 7:00 AM). When I started the temperature was 77 or so and by the time I got back at 11:30 it was 90 degrees. Skies were indeed clear and the breeze was a light 9 mph from the WSW. Humidity seemed lower than recently at 55%. When I stopped at the Valero station on FM1314 sitting in the shade I actually felt very cool once the perspiration had mostly dried up.<\/p>\n<p>I made my July YTD goal of at least 3,100 miles. Hopefully in August I can add 600 or so.<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s ride numbers:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>miles = 53.59<\/li>\n<li>riding time = 3:36:30<\/li>\n<li>average pace = 4:02 min\/mile<\/li>\n<li>average speed = 14.9 mph<\/li>\n<li>max speed = 20.2 mph<\/li>\n<li>average cadence = 76.0 rpm<\/li>\n<li>max cadence = 104 rpm<\/li>\n<li>climb 237 ft., descend 304 ft., max elevation 194 ft.<\/li>\n<li>July miles 541.81<\/li>\n<li>YTD miles 3108.47<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>[nggallery id=85]<\/p>\n<p>[iframe http:\/\/connect.garmin.com:80\/activity\/embed\/42563795 465 548]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday in rural southeast Texas is refreshing. Traffic is light to none, silence is present most of the time, and the scenery is great. Today&#8217;s ride took me to Splendora and then Grangerland before heading back to Porter and home. <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2010\/07\/31\/a-country-saturday-morning-july-31st-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":"closed","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":[14],"tags":[1938,1602,1350,1424,722],"class_list":["post-5400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bicycling-news","tag-grangerland","tag-mercier-serpens-ltd-2-0","tag-ride-report","tag-road","tag-splendora-texas"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4tok-1p6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5400","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=5400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5400\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}