{"id":63476,"date":"2023-10-04T14:46:11","date_gmt":"2023-10-04T19:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/?p=63476"},"modified":"2023-10-04T14:46:13","modified_gmt":"2023-10-04T19:46:13","slug":"gambling-with-the-rain-and-lost-the-sky-was-against-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2023\/10\/04\/gambling-with-the-rain-and-lost-the-sky-was-against-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Gambling With The Rain And Lost, The Sky Was Against Me"},"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=\"Gambling With The Rain And Lost, The Sky Was Against Me 10\/4\/2023\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qoRarfHWsmQ?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 didn&#8217;t bike yesterday (Tuesday) due to rain. I don&#8217;t like to get wet. Today&#8217;s bike ride looked like the rain might keep me at home but I decided to take a chance after the streets dried some from rain during the night. I pulled away on my Cervelo Caledonia bike at 10:51 AM with cloudy skies. It didn&#8217;t take long to hear thunder and as I rode on Tinechester Drive in Sherwood Trails Village light rain started. I stayed with the ride plan thinking the rain would stop after riding into North Woodland Hills Village and to the east. The rain stayed about the same until I got to Kings Forest where the streets were wet but no rain. Emboldened by this I kept riding to Towne Center. Dry streets and no rain encouraged me to bike south to Kingwood Greens. At Kingwood Greens and W. Lake Houston Parkway I made the choice to ride south over the river. Over the river there was no turning back until the other side. The sky looked wet and as I rode to the traffic light at Kings River Drive light rain was there waiting for me. A short ride to the left on Kings River Drive I saw rain in the puddle at the curb and turned back to head north over the river. On the bridge mist fell but once I was at Kings Harbor that stopped. Biking back home the roads were mostly dry until Woodbridge Drive when light rain returned to the finish at 12:18 PM. Rain is in the forecast tomorrow too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<center><div class=\"strava-embed-placeholder\" data-embed-type=\"activity\" data-embed-id=\"9976496020\"><\/div><script src=\"https:\/\/strava-embeds.com\/embed.js\"><\/script>\n<\/center>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I didn&#8217;t bike yesterday (Tuesday) due to rain. I don&#8217;t like to get wet. Today&#8217;s bike ride looked like the rain might keep me at home but I decided to take a chance after the streets dried some from rain <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2023\/10\/04\/gambling-with-the-rain-and-lost-the-sky-was-against-me\/\"><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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[22],"tags":[2560,212,5297,4719,5553,5317,2364,1424],"class_list":["post-63476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bike-ride","tag-bicycle","tag-bicycling","tag-bike","tag-biking","tag-cervelo-caledonia-rival-axs","tag-kingwood-streets","tag-rain","tag-road"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4tok-gvO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63476","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=63476"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63477,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63476\/revisions\/63477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}