{"id":59823,"date":"2022-08-04T14:51:51","date_gmt":"2022-08-04T19:51:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/?p=59823"},"modified":"2022-08-04T14:51:52","modified_gmt":"2022-08-04T19:51:52","slug":"variation-takes-effort-i-like-dog-leashes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2022\/08\/04\/variation-takes-effort-i-like-dog-leashes\/","title":{"rendered":"Variation Takes Effort. I Like Dog Leashes"},"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=\"Variation Takes Effort. I Like Dog Leashes 8\/4\/2022\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_8lWzSTxIc0?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\">When I ride the same route 3 times in a week searching for variation takes some effort. I found a little variation today on my &#8220;Atascocita &#8211; Walden &#8211; Huffman&#8221; route by adding a loop in Kingwood Greens, the Atascocita Hike &amp; Bike Trail, and riding on Rebawood Drive on the way back to Kingwood. That put the distance at <strong>35.23 miles<\/strong>, slightly above the average for the 18 other rides in 2022. No changes in the roads or construction areas I rode through. The sliver of pavement between the barriers riding west on FM 1960 approaching Atascocita Shores Drive is a way to stay out of the traffic but today rather than waiting for a left turn there was a long opening in the westbound traffic allowing me to move over to make the right turn onto Atascocita Shores and avoid the stop light. A man working on some landscape on the Atascocita Hike &amp; Bike Trail saw me coming and held his German Shepherd dog as I rode by with the dog lunging after me but restrained. I think another German Shepherd tried to chase me earlier in the ride but his leash stopped him. I like leashes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I saw three other cyclists: two on FM 1960 riding west as I made the turn onto Fairlake Lane and the other on Rebawood just after turning off Atascocita Shores. I wonder if the two on FM 1960 stopped at the donuts shop at E. Lake Houston Parkway like have seen others do in the past.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Getting started before 9 AM by 1 minute was a big effort though I thought I would do better than that. I finished at 11:50 AM with the temperature at 95 heading toward a possible 100. Glad I missed that. Yesterday I registered for the HH100 so I might see 100 degrees on August 27th in Wichita Falls. I&#8217;m waiting on my hotel reservation to come through.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This wasn&#8217;t a fast ride and it took most of the ride to get my average speed to 13 mph or higher. As I rode west over Lake Houston I changed to 35&#215;15 gears because the headwind was so strong. I didn&#8217;t know how strong until I finished at looked at the weather, 20 mph gusts. No wonder my legs had trouble pushing the 35&#215;13 gears on my Cervelo Caledonia. Link to <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/axs.sram.com\/activities\/wahoo-262128671__1659621598\">AXS.SRAM ride report<\/a><\/strong>. I did ride the 35&#215;13 gears for a total of 1:30:10 out of the total moving time of 2:45:56.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Weather: start 86 (humidity 78%, dew point 78), a few clouds, wind S 4 mph; 95 (humidity 55%, dew point 76), mostly cloudy, wind SW 9 mph gusts 20 mph. I don&#8217;t remember reading about the wind being that strong in today&#8217;s forecast. 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I found a little variation today on my &#8220;Atascocita &#8211; Walden &#8211; Huffman&#8221; route by adding a loop in Kingwood Greens, the Atascocita <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2022\/08\/04\/variation-takes-effort-i-like-dog-leashes\/\"><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":[3932,2560,212,5297,4719,5553,1424],"class_list":["post-59823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bike-ride","tag-atascocita-walden-huffman","tag-bicycle","tag-bicycling","tag-bike","tag-biking","tag-cervelo-caledonia-rival-axs","tag-road"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4tok-fyT","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59823","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=59823"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59824,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59823\/revisions\/59824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}