{"id":9128,"date":"2011-07-17T17:33:59","date_gmt":"2011-07-17T22:33:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/?p=9128"},"modified":"2011-07-17T17:35:53","modified_gmt":"2011-07-17T22:35:53","slug":"summer-heat-and-dry-continues-but-the-ride-goes-on-july-17th-bike-ride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2011\/07\/17\/summer-heat-and-dry-continues-but-the-ride-goes-on-july-17th-bike-ride\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer Heat and Dry Continues but the Ride Goes On – July 17th Bike Ride"},"content":{"rendered":"

I wasn’t sure I would get to ride today because of an afternoon meeting at my church. Sometimes a meeting lasts longer than planned but that did not happen in this case. But I did ride later than usual for Sunday with a start time of 2:56 PM. This meant the temperature would have the full time to heat up to the daytime max which it has I think. At the start the temperature was 95 degrees with the heat index of 99 degrees and humidity of 40%. The wind was calm so I was going to have to create the breeze by riding if that was going to help. By the time I finished at 4:46 PM the temperature was up to 97 and the heat index was now 102 degrees. The humidity had dropped 1% to 39% and the wind finally arrived at 8.1 mph from the southeast. All of this made for a toasty ride and a call for much ice water. Scattered clouds did not reduce the sun shine.<\/p>\n

I decided to ride a straight forward route without a lot of branches since I did not have a lot of time. Surprisingly this still was a 26.52 mile<\/strong> ride at an average speed of 15.1 mph and a max speed of 24.2 mph. Average cadence was 79.6 RPM. July miles update:<\/p>\n