{"id":56997,"date":"2021-07-22T15:56:42","date_gmt":"2021-07-22T20:56:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/?p=56997"},"modified":"2021-07-22T15:56:45","modified_gmt":"2021-07-22T20:56:45","slug":"no-rain-2-days-in-a-row-what-happened","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2021\/07\/22\/no-rain-2-days-in-a-row-what-happened\/","title":{"rendered":"No Rain 2 Days In A Row, What Happened?"},"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=\"Kingwood to Ramsey Road - Huffman Bike Ride 7\/22\/2021\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/u6QQmCh1MWk?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\">I don&#8217;t know how to handle biking two days in a row without getting rained on. That is out of the ordinary for July. But I will give it a shot. After watching stage 3 of The Tour of Wallonie on GCN+ I rolled my Lynskey R300 out the door and down the driveway at 10:21 AM. The route for today was the one I attempted on Tuesday but turned back when rain came between me and Ramsey Road as I headed east on Old Atascocita Road (Kingwood to Ramsey Road &#8211; Huffman). Today I made it all the way to Ramsey road. The <strong>38.39 miles<\/strong> set me up for a 200 mile week if the weather forecast holds true. My week now totals <strong>154.97 miles<\/strong>. July stands at <strong>730.35 miles<\/strong>, just 70 miles to reach my 800 mile goal. This was the 5th time biking this route in 2021. If I add in 1 bike ride where I didn&#8217;t go back through Huffman the ride count is 6. That ride was about a mile and a half shorter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/7-22-2021-YTD-Bike-Rides-Summary-on-Todays-Route.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"281\" data-attachment-id=\"56995\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/7-22-2021-ytd-bike-rides-summary-on-todays-route\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/7-22-2021-YTD-Bike-Rides-Summary-on-Todays-Route.jpg?fit=1838%2C431&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1838,431\" 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=\"7-22-2021 YTD Bike Rides Summary on Today&amp;#8217;s Route\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;7-22-2021 YTD Bike Rides Summary on Today&amp;#8217;s Route&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;7-22-2021 YTD Bike Rides Summary on Today&amp;#8217;s Route&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/7-22-2021-YTD-Bike-Rides-Summary-on-Todays-Route.jpg?fit=600%2C141&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/7-22-2021-YTD-Bike-Rides-Summary-on-Todays-Route.jpg?fit=800%2C188&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/7-22-2021-YTD-Bike-Rides-Summary-on-Todays-Route.jpg?resize=1200%2C281&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"7-22-2021 YTD Bike Rides Summary on Today's Route\" class=\"wp-image-56995\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/7-22-2021-YTD-Bike-Rides-Summary-on-Todays-Route.jpg?w=1838&amp;ssl=1 1838w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/7-22-2021-YTD-Bike-Rides-Summary-on-Todays-Route.jpg?resize=600%2C141&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/7-22-2021-YTD-Bike-Rides-Summary-on-Todays-Route.jpg?resize=800%2C188&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/7-22-2021-YTD-Bike-Rides-Summary-on-Todays-Route.jpg?resize=640%2C150&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/7-22-2021-YTD-Bike-Rides-Summary-on-Todays-Route.jpg?resize=1536%2C360&amp;ssl=1 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>7-22-2021 YTD Bike Rides Summary on Today&#8217;s Route<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today&#8217;s distance is about average for the rides. My average speed was lower today. I think my legs were tired from yesterday&#8217;s bike ride. I couldn&#8217;t seem to get my speed above 15 mph for very long. Yet Strava says this ride was harder than my usual efforts. I was not expecting that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the video I talk about replacing the thru axles on my Lynskey bike after watching a YouTube video last night. I have not been able to take the axles out and put them back on as easily as the ones on my Canyon bike. The man in the video called them &#8220;wonky&#8221; and said he was going to replace them with Robert axles. I agree with the wonky assessment. I found the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/robertaxleproject.com\/\">Robert Axle Project website <\/a><\/strong>and ordered front and rear axles. Unlike most bike parts they shipped today. I am looking forward to putting them on my Lynskey R300 bike. My only other wish for the Lynskey is internal cables but that is not easily changed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lots of clouds during today&#8217;s bike ride. A couple of times I thought there might be one or two with rain but nothing came of that. Overall weather conditions for today&#8217;s bike ride: start 86 (76% humidity, 77.1 dew point), mostly cloudy, wind calm; finish 89 (57% humidity, 71.6 dew point), mostly cloudy, wind SW 10 mph. It seemed hotter today. I stopped at the bridge on Ramsey Road for about 10 minutes to rest and eat a cereal bar. I needed some fuel to get back home. The headwind on the way back when riding west taxed my legs but I was able to improve my overall average speed to 13 mph. Lower than yesterday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">No other bikers along the route today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Click on the Strava ride summary image to go to the activity page. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/sporttracks.mobi\/activity\/28454263\">Link to the SportTRacks activity summary<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.strava.com\/activities\/5670273612\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1066\" height=\"1044\" data-attachment-id=\"56996\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/7-22-2021-strava-bike-ride-summary\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/7-22-2021-Strava-Bike-Ride-Summary.jpg?fit=1066%2C1044&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1066,1044\" 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=\"7-22-2021 Strava Bike Ride Summary\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;7-22-2021 Strava Bike Ride Summary&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;7-22-2021 Strava Bike Ride Summary&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/7-22-2021-Strava-Bike-Ride-Summary.jpg?fit=459%2C450&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/7-22-2021-Strava-Bike-Ride-Summary.jpg?fit=613%2C600&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/7-22-2021-Strava-Bike-Ride-Summary.jpg?resize=1066%2C1044&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"7-22-2021 Strava Bike Ride Summary\" class=\"wp-image-56996\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/7-22-2021-Strava-Bike-Ride-Summary.jpg?w=1066&amp;ssl=1 1066w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/7-22-2021-Strava-Bike-Ride-Summary.jpg?resize=459%2C450&amp;ssl=1 459w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/7-22-2021-Strava-Bike-Ride-Summary.jpg?resize=613%2C600&amp;ssl=1 613w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/7-22-2021-Strava-Bike-Ride-Summary.jpg?resize=490%2C480&amp;ssl=1 490w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1066px) 100vw, 1066px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>7-22-2021 Strava Bike Ride Summary<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/ridewithgps.com\/embeds?type=trip&#038;id=71750915&#038;sampleGraph=true\" style=\"width: 1px; min-width: 90%; height: 1000px; border: none;\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know how to handle biking two days in a row without getting rained on. That is out of the ordinary for July. But I will give it a shot. After watching stage 3 of The Tour of Wallonie <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2021\/07\/22\/no-rain-2-days-in-a-row-what-happened\/\"><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":[212,4719,5331,5383,1424],"class_list":["post-56997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bike-ride","tag-bicycling","tag-biking","tag-kingwood-to-ramsey-road-huffman","tag-lynskey-r300-titanium-bike","tag-road"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4tok-ePj","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56997","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=56997"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56998,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56997\/revisions\/56998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}