{"id":65578,"date":"2024-07-07T18:50:05","date_gmt":"2024-07-07T23:50:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/?p=65578"},"modified":"2024-07-07T18:50:07","modified_gmt":"2024-07-07T23:50:07","slug":"trek-marlin-8-mtb-in-the-kingwood-rain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2024\/07\/07\/trek-marlin-8-mtb-in-the-kingwood-rain\/","title":{"rendered":"Trek Marlin 8 MTB In The Kingwood Rain"},"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=\"Trek Marlin 8 MTB In The Kingwood Rain 7\/7\/2024\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/o5Ov0c57dMs?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>As the church worship service ended the rain began. As I moved through the rain to the Jeep to drive home I resigned myself to not biking today. When I got home I started watching stage 9 of the TdF and the rain stopped, the sun came out. By the time I finished watching the TdF the streets were dry. It was time to go for a bike ride. It was a late start at 3:56 PM. I decided to ride the Trek Marlin 8 MTB around Kingwood streets and trails. Riding south through Kingwood Greens I wanted to ride south over the river on W. Lake Houston Parkway but looking at the dark sky it didn&#8217;t look like a good idea. I turned north along W. Lake Houston Parkway. By the time I got to Kingwood Drive light rain started. I paused for a few seconds under the Memorial Herman ER portico and then rode on. As I neared the Kingwood Community Center on Rustic Woods the rain picked up. I rode quickly to the community center front door portico just before the rain came down and the wind picked up. After about 8 minutes the rain stopped and I headed off to finish the ride at 5;22 PM. 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As I moved through the rain to the Jeep to drive home I resigned myself to not biking today. When I got home I started watching stage 9 of the TdF <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2024\/07\/07\/trek-marlin-8-mtb-in-the-kingwood-rain\/\"><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":[2560,212,5297,4719,5648,2364,1424,5686],"class_list":["post-65578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bike-ride","tag-bicycle","tag-bicycling","tag-bike","tag-biking","tag-kingwood-streets-trails","tag-rain","tag-road","tag-trek-marlin-8-mtb"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4tok-h3I","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65578","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=65578"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65579,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65578\/revisions\/65579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}