{"id":61637,"date":"2023-02-23T17:55:55","date_gmt":"2023-02-23T23:55:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/?p=61637"},"modified":"2023-02-23T17:55:57","modified_gmt":"2023-02-23T23:55:57","slug":"hot-windy-biking-around-harlingen-wilson-road-combes-loop-499","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2023\/02\/23\/hot-windy-biking-around-harlingen-wilson-road-combes-loop-499\/","title":{"rendered":"Hot, Windy Biking Around Harlingen. Wilson Road &#8211; Combes &#8211; Loop 499"},"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=\"Hot, Windy Biking Around Harlingen. Wilson Road - Combes - Loop 499 2\/23\/2023\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uGQylsopXLE?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\">A different setting for today&#8217;s bike ride, Harlingen, TX. I&#8217;m here early to ride the Jalapeno 100 on Saturday and to take advantage of the summer like weather for riding before then.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Earlier today I watched two bike races, the UAE Tour and the O Gran Cami\u00f1o while I ate breakfast. The weather couldn&#8217;t have been more different for those two races. The UAE Tour was sunny and around 20C while the O Gran Cami\u00f1o was super cold and snowing on the last climb. The O Gran Cami\u00f1o was stopped with about 22km left because of heavy snow and freezing cold. I didn&#8217;t have that problem in Harlingen. When I started my ride at 11:16 AM it was 84 degrees, fair with a south wind of 18 mph and gusts of 31 mph. By the 1:53 PM finish the temperature was 94, fair sky, and the wind was from the south at 15 mph and 24 mph gusts. The wind and temperature took a lot out of me so I should&#8217;ve started earlier before it got that intense.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I looked up a route at RWGPS that I planned the last time I came to Harlingen for the Jalapeno 100 in late February 2020. I wanted to ride a few miles longer than then. I selected the route on my Bolt computer for turn-by-turn directions. The first 6+ miles I rode on that route but I didn&#8217;t update the route to add the extra miles and the Bolt had a beeping fit wanting me to turn at every side street to get back on the route. I ignored the beeping and later in the ride when I was on Loop 499 the Bolt wanted me to make u-turns which would&#8217;ve taken me away from where I finished. I called the route <em>Wilson Road &#8211; Combes &#8211; Loop 499<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Most of the roads were chip seal on the shoulders except for TX 107 and Loop 499 which was asphalt with some patches. It wasn&#8217;t rough enough to jar fillings out but bumpy and vibrating. No climbing but there was a short slight downhill on Loop 499 over a bridge approaching Business US77 near the end of the ride.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The wind and heat took their pound of flesh so I stopped at the Road Ranger Truck Stop in Combes at US77 to recover some at 14.8 miles. Later I stopped again for ice and water at a store on Loop 499. My CamelBak would&#8217;ve been better than the water bottle I had with me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I ended up riding less miles than I wanted to at 24.47. My legs told me to finish or they would go on strike from the wind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Friday I plan on starting earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"strava-embed-placeholder\" data-embed-type=\"activity\" data-embed-id=\"8611127994\"><\/div><script src=\"https:\/\/strava-embeds.com\/embed.js\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/ridewithgps.com\/embeds?type=trip&#038;id=114012960&#038;sampleGraph=true&#038;distanceMarkers=true\" style=\"width: 1px; min-width: 100%; height: 1000px; border: none;\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A different setting for today&#8217;s bike ride, Harlingen, TX. I&#8217;m here early to ride the Jalapeno 100 on Saturday and to take advantage of the summer like weather for riding before then. 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