12-18-2010 Ride Information

Riding in the daylight is rare event these days but I did that this afternoon even though the temperature was slightly below the 60 degree threshold. As I mentioned in Thursday’s ride report I wanted to ride my Motobecane 700HT on trails along the bayou that runs through Kingwood. The clouds moved out when the chill front came through during the night but since it was below 60 degrees I was wearing my cold clothing: long sleeve jersey, leg warmers, windbreaker jacket, full finger gloves. With this amount of clothing no vitamin D was absorbed during the ride. Even with this coverage I could feel the temperature difference when I moved into the shade. Wind was not a factor since it was only 4 mph and variable direction.

We are in the final days of Fall with Winter arriving on December 21st. I cheer this date since this marks when the daylight begins to grow longer each day. With Fall the foliage in our area is showing the beauty so I took some pictures while I was riding.

The pictures show some of the trail along the bayou (or drainage canal). The ground is fairly level and there is some construction taking place installing drain pipes to route surface water into the bayou. In past rides the ground has had numerous gullies and holes with water standing but due to our lack of rain the trail was very dry.

No on else was riding the route I was on although at one point I met a couple out walking. They took the picture of me on my MTB in front of the short bridge.

Tomorrow’s weather is supposed to be warmer than forecast a couple of days ago. This may mean I can get in some road riding miles.

My mileage information up to now:

• December miles 137.17
• YTD miles 5070.48

12-18-2010 Route Map

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Additional charts, weather and map.

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