{"id":64588,"date":"2024-02-09T18:20:32","date_gmt":"2024-02-10T00:20:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/?p=64588"},"modified":"2024-02-09T18:20:34","modified_gmt":"2024-02-10T00:20:34","slug":"railroad-overpass-climbs-atascocita-balmoral-w-lake-houston-pkwy-walden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2024\/02\/09\/railroad-overpass-climbs-atascocita-balmoral-w-lake-houston-pkwy-walden\/","title":{"rendered":"Railroad Overpass Climbs. Atascocita &#8211; Balmoral &#8211; W Lake Houston Pkwy &#8211; Walden"},"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=\"Railroad Overpass Climbs. Atascocita - Balmoral - W Lake Houston Pkwy - Walden 2\/9\/2024\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Efoc6Q0MXbU?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 rode south on my <strong>Atascocita &#8211; Balmoral &#8211; W Lake Houston Pkwy &#8211; Walden<\/strong> route for the first time since <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/sporttracks.mobi\/activity\/31450584\">October 19th, 2023<\/a><\/strong>. This route is west of Lake Houston but does get close at the southern turn around point at W. Lake Houston Parkway. I rolled out at 11:43 AM (I can&#8217;t seem to get going earlier) riding my Canyon Endurace CF 7 bike. The overcast sky encouraged me to wear a long sleeve jersey and wind jacket. The wind calmed down to single digits (6 to 7 mph) and the temperature was in the mid 70&#8217;s. When the sun broke through a few times it made me hot but when it left I was glad for the jersey and jacket. I did get a workout going up over the railroad track overpass into a headwind on Timber Forest Drive. The return climb wasn&#8217;t as hard without the headwind. I saw another cyclist on Lakewood Pines and again on Aerobic Drive. I finished at 2:38 PM riding 37.34 miles compared to my last ride 38.1 miles. My legs appreciated the calmer wind today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<center><div class=\"fatmap-embed-placeholder\" data-type=\"lived-adventure\" data-id=\"107169878\" data-screen=\"elevation-profile\"><\/div>\n<script defer src=\"https:\/\/embeds.fatmap.com\/embed.js\"><\/script>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.strava.com\/activities\/10729429677\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1038\" height=\"602\" data-attachment-id=\"64586\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2-9-2024-strava-ride-summary-atascocita-balmoral-w-lk-houston-pky-walden\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/2-9-2024-Strava-Ride-Summary-Atascocita-Balmoral-W-Lk-Houston-Pky-Walden.png?fit=1038%2C602&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1038,602\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" 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800px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">2-9-2024 SportTracks Ride History Atascocita-Balmoral-W Lk Houston Pky-Walden<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/center>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I rode south on my Atascocita &#8211; Balmoral &#8211; W Lake Houston Pkwy &#8211; Walden route for the first time since October 19th, 2023. This route is west of Lake Houston but does get close at the southern turn around <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2024\/02\/09\/railroad-overpass-climbs-atascocita-balmoral-w-lake-houston-pkwy-walden\/\"><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":[5631,2560,212,5297,4719,1424],"class_list":["post-64588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bike-ride","tag-atascocita-balmoral-w-lake-houston-pkwy-walden","tag-bicycle","tag-bicycling","tag-bike","tag-biking","tag-road"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4tok-gNK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64588","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=64588"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64589,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64588\/revisions\/64589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}