{"id":65891,"date":"2024-09-07T14:02:18","date_gmt":"2024-09-07T19:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/?p=65891"},"modified":"2024-09-07T14:02:19","modified_gmt":"2024-09-07T19:02:19","slug":"wind-sun-and-miles-cycling-on-the-atascocita-huffman-walden-route","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2024\/09\/07\/wind-sun-and-miles-cycling-on-the-atascocita-huffman-walden-route\/","title":{"rendered":"Wind, Sun, and Miles: Cycling on the Atascocita-Huffman-Walden Route"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wXWjnI7vUtU?si=Wavv0I8mZpAesuBn\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yesterday was a rain out as far as bike riding was concerned. Today was very different as a cool front arrived dropping the temperature for the 8:35 AM start for today&#8217;s bike ride. I rode my Canyon Endurace CF 7 bike on the <strong>Atascocita &#8211; Huffman &#8211; Walden<\/strong> route. I hoped to see other cyclists and wasn&#8217;t disappointed when I reached Fairlake Lane and Old Atascocita Road. I did see a cyclist before that in Sherwood Trails Village in Kingwood and our paths crossed again in Bear Branch Village. At Kingwood&#8217;s Town Center the Pickle Festival was setting up with many booths. I made my way slowly through exiting on Ben&#8217;s Branch Drive. The hardest part of the ride was going east over Lake Houston into a headwind. My legs could only pedal in the 35&#215;15 gears at 9 to 10 mph. The reward was the return west over the lake with a tailwind. When I checked the weather after the ride I saw the wind was NE at 17 mph and gusts 28 mph. I skipped the Atascocita Hike and Bike Trail today to avoid the possible mud under FM1960 from the rain. When I rode up to the Pinehurst Trail Drive at FM1960 traffic light a cyclist was waiting for the light to change. We chatted while waiting and then rode together on Pinehurst Trail Drive continuing our conversation. At the stop sign I rode ahead but we rejoined on Kings River Drive. I forgot to get his name. The sun was out for the whole ride. I finished at 11:26 AM riding 35.81 miles. The week totals 198 miles and September moved to 210.28 as I work to the 866 mile goal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Weather: Start 73 degrees, humidity 80%, dew point 66.8, a few clouds, wind N 13 mph; Finish 81 degrees, humidity 69%, dew point 69.8, a few clouds, wind NE 17 mph gusts 28 mph.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-1 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.strava.com\/activities\/12351137423\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"557\" data-attachment-id=\"65889\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/9-7-2024-strava-summary-atascocita-huffman-walden\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/9-7-2024-Strava-Summary-Atascocita-Huffman-Walden.png?fit=1237%2C861&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1237,861\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"9-7-2024 Strava Summary Atascocita &amp;#8211; 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Huffman &#8211; Walden<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"569\" height=\"600\" data-attachment-id=\"65890\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/9-7-2024-strava-route-analysis-atascocita-huffman-walden\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/9-7-2024-Strava-Route-Analysis-Atascocita-Huffman-Walden.png?fit=1234%2C1302&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1234,1302\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"9-7-2024 Strava Route Analysis Atascocita &amp;#8211; 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Huffman &#8211; Walden<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday was a rain out as far as bike riding was concerned. Today was very different as a cool front arrived dropping the temperature for the 8:35 AM start for today&#8217;s bike ride. I rode my Canyon Endurace CF 7 <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2024\/09\/07\/wind-sun-and-miles-cycling-on-the-atascocita-huffman-walden-route\/\"><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":[5307,2560,212,5297,4719,5643,1424],"class_list":["post-65891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bike-ride","tag-atascocita-huffman-walden","tag-bicycle","tag-bicycling","tag-bike","tag-biking","tag-canyon-endurace-cf7-rival-axs","tag-road"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4tok-h8L","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65891","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=65891"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65892,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65891\/revisions\/65892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}