I tried a few different streets to exit Kingwood before heading to the newly resurfaced Adams St. The smooth asphalt on Adams St. is a great improvement over the bumpy surface of old. Now I can use Adams St. on a regular basis. I rode to the north to New Caney and on to Roman Forest Blvd. before turning south along US59. The service road south of FM1485 is reduced to one lane once you get past the entrance to US59 south. I am guessing this is for beam placement on the Grand Parkway overhead ramps in the coming days. Traffic is light so this didn’t present any problem. I think two cars and a pickup passed me with room to spare in the section with one lane. South of the construction the service road is three lanes.

This route with the return to the Adams St. exit from Kingwood came to 32.39 miles and I averaged 15.8 mph. My stop at the Stripes station was short, just long enough to wipe the sweat from my bandana, clean my glasses of perspiration and refill my water bottle. The reason for the short stay was the darkening gray clouds to the south. I did not want to repeat Monday’s ride in the rain. I left home at 9:49 under cloudy skies and 80 degrees (84% humidity, probably why the sweat flowed freely today). Yesterday I didn’t bike because it rained in the early morning and as I waited for the streets to dry radar showed more rain coming but it moved around our area and I missed riding.

After leaving Stripes I rode south through Briar Tree without any rain going on to Oakhurst. As I got close to leaving Oakhurst on Rock Creek Drive a few drops fell but not enough to wet the pavement. I continued on noticing a particularly dark cloud over Kingwood or so. I took the south US59 service from Kingwood Place to Kingwood Drive, made the u-turn on the north service road, cut through Kingwood Parc to Loop 494. All was still dry and stayed that way until the Houston Fire Station on Kingwood Dr. where I met a lady biking towards me who was pretty wet from rain. I passed the station on the mostly wet trail and then turned into South Woodland Hills. From there all the way home (about 2 3/4 miles) the streets were wet but no rain was falling. One of the slides shows the radar when I got home with rain surrounding Kingwood and as I write this thunder is rumbling in the distance.

One of these days maybe I will ride without any rain or wet streets!! Friday looks like another day with 50% chance of rain in the forecast but Saturday looks like a very low chance of rain.

Mileage standings:

• 114.32 miles this week
• 825.9 miles for June (60 miles left to reach my goal)
• 3230 miles year to date
• Links to Garmin Connect and RideWithGPS.com

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