My second edition patch work from yesterday’s ride held through the night and all of today’s ride. So I can pronounce my patch as successful. Because I prefer to not miss biking I ordered some addition patch kits, tubes and two more Continental GatorSkin tires. The glass shard that caused the flat could have made a cut rendering the tire as unusable and put me off my bike until I found a replacement.

During the night it looked like a rain front would move through our area but when I got up this morning the ground showed no signs of rain. Some places must have got wet just by the size an intensity of the line of rain. We need rain but if it did not make it I will take the opportunity to bike. I started the ride at 10:48 AM (while I wrote this the electricity went off for 1 hour and 45 minutes) and the north 10 mph breeze brought a coolness to the 81 degrees and this lingered throughout the ride. Even at the end with 87 degrees it did not feel that warm. The mostly cloudy sky accompanied me during the ride.

This coolness might been the reason I averaged 15.6 mph over the 31.92 mile route through Atascocita, Walden at Lake Houston and on to Huffman. My riding time of 2:03:08 returned to normal without any flats. Total time stopped came in at 23:08 with most of that at the Huffman Chevron eating my Kashi bar and Diet Pepsi. I did see several other bikers over the course which I consider unusual being a Tuesday around the middle of the day. I guess other people get time off from their other activities.

In order to get that average speed the table below shows the distances I spent at various speed levels. The 24.73 miles at 17.4 mph or more helped. This is 77.4% of the miles covered today. May miles: 228.61, this week miles: 62.95, year to date miles: 2164.27.

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Link to the RideWithGPS.com data and route map