I liked starting early on yesterday’s ride and I wanted to repeat this again today but I did not get out of the driveway until 10:39. The temperature had not made it to the 80’s yet so the first few miles felt cool until I got my body heat up and the sun warmed things up. At the end 87 degrees and 48% humidity made me perspire a lot. My gloves needed to be wrung out. Scattered clouds with a 9 mph SSE breeze helped keep the heat down some. At the Huffman Chevron station one of the customers asked if I biked in August and I said yes but earlier in the day.

The route repeated my recently modified one through Atascocita, Walden at Lake Houston and on to Huffman before returning to Kingwood. It totaled 32.6 miles so May is getting started on a good foot. Year to date stands at 1968.27 miles. With the light wind I averaged 15.5 mph with 25.5 mph as my max speed. Average cadence was almost identical to yesterday at 80.7 RPM (vs. 80.8 RPM on Monday). Riding time totaled 2:06:32 plus 28:26 time stopped. Again the most of the time stopped came in Huffman at the Chevron station drinking my first Diet Pepsi of the day. My schedule today got rearranged from my usual one so no Diet Pepsi before I started.

Sitting at a place like the Chevron station allows me to people watch. Since the intersection of FM1960 and FM2100 passes many people through the watching can be very entertaining. Sometimes its the vehicles moving by, sometimes the train rolls by on the track beside FM1960 and the artwork on the railcars shows some kind of talent but still it is graffiti. Today a serviceman worked on the pumps and point of sale system at the station. The covered nozzles caused various reactions from people as they drove into and out of the station wondering what problem could be. One lady made a couple of loops through the pumps before going back out to FM1960. The clerk asked me how much I normally pay for that Diet Pepsi because of the disabled cash registered. Rarely do I see the same people. Many days I just stop long enough to refill my waterbottle and get back on the road missing the drama.

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