{"id":56504,"date":"2021-05-12T16:18:45","date_gmt":"2021-05-12T21:18:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/?p=56504"},"modified":"2021-05-12T16:18:48","modified_gmt":"2021-05-12T21:18:48","slug":"20-degree-drop-cool-weather-gear-local-legends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2021\/05\/12\/20-degree-drop-cool-weather-gear-local-legends\/","title":{"rendered":"20 Degree Drop, Cool Weather Gear, Local Legends"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-embed-handler wp-block-embed-embed-handler wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"20 Degree Drop, Cool Weather Gear, Local Legends\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SyjAfv8jnug?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 class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Weather delayed the start of today&#8217;s bike ride as I waited for the temperature to move towards the high for the day of 74. I gave up and decided to pull cool weather clothing from the back of the closet. I thought the cool biking days were done until fall but not the case. I wore shorts, a long sleeve thermal jersey, and a windbreaker jacket. I rolled away on my Lynskey R300 bike at 12:23 PM following my &#8220;Kingwood &#8211; FM 1485 &#8211; Kingwood&#8221; route. For a second or two I was tempted to wait longer but my confidence in getting warmer wasn&#8217;t high.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While waiting I watched stage 5 of the Giro d&#8217;Italia and stage 1 of The Tour of Hungary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yesterday evening a cool front that lingered north of Houston finally moved through lowering the temperature after a brief rain. It hung around dropping the temperature 20 degrees from yesterday&#8217;s high. Weather when I started and finished: start 66 (88% humidity, 62.6 dew point), overcast, wind N 9 mph; finish 69 (81% humidity, 63.1 dew point), overcast, wind N 12 mph. Biking north the chilly headwind emphasized why I like it in the 80&#8217;s and 90&#8217;s. After the turn at Caney Creek the tailwind helped me set a good pace back to Kingwood. The wind didn&#8217;t feel so chilly then.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I didn&#8217;t want to fall behind on the way to a 200 mile week and then need to catch up later in the week. Today&#8217;s <strong>31.34 miles<\/strong> increased the week to <strong>113.7 miles<\/strong> reducing the need for a 40+ mile ride.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A result of today&#8217;s ride was getting two &#8220;Local Legend&#8221; awards from Strava.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.strava.com\/activities\/5286266489\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1050\" height=\"1155\" data-attachment-id=\"56503\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/5-12-2021-strava-bike-ride-summary\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/5-12-2021-Strava-Bike-Ride-Summary.jpg?fit=1050%2C1155&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1050,1155\" 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=\"5-12-2021 Strava Bike Ride Summary\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;5-12-2021 Strava Bike Ride Summary&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/5-12-2021-Strava-Bike-Ride-Summary.jpg?fit=409%2C450&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/5-12-2021-Strava-Bike-Ride-Summary.jpg?fit=545%2C600&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/5-12-2021-Strava-Bike-Ride-Summary.jpg?resize=1050%2C1155&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"5-12-2021 Strava Bike Ride Summary\" class=\"wp-image-56503\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/5-12-2021-Strava-Bike-Ride-Summary.jpg?w=1050&amp;ssl=1 1050w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/5-12-2021-Strava-Bike-Ride-Summary.jpg?resize=409%2C450&amp;ssl=1 409w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/5-12-2021-Strava-Bike-Ride-Summary.jpg?resize=545%2C600&amp;ssl=1 545w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/5-12-2021-Strava-Bike-Ride-Summary.jpg?resize=436%2C480&amp;ssl=1 436w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1050px) 100vw, 1050px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Weather delayed the start of today&#8217;s bike ride as I waited for the temperature to move towards the high for the day of 74. I gave up and decided to pull cool weather clothing from the back of the closet. <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2021\/05\/12\/20-degree-drop-cool-weather-gear-local-legends\/\"><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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[22],"tags":[5316,5383,1424],"class_list":["post-56504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bike-ride","tag-kingwood-fm1485-kingwood","tag-lynskey-r300-titanium-bike","tag-road"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4tok-eHm","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56504","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=56504"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56505,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56504\/revisions\/56505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}