Last night after eating dinner I started to get up from my chair and my leg muscles let me I had overworked them biking. This morning when I got up the soreness was still there but at least I could move around without constant pain. At first I thought biking today might be a bad idea, a recovery day, but as morning changed to noon the muscles were doing better. With the sun finally burning off the fog I set off on the ride at 1:14. It was 76 degrees, partly cloudy sky and a light SE wind of 9 or 10 mph. The first 5 or 6 miles were difficult from the sore muscles but as they warmed up the soreness seemed to go away. In reality it didn’t go away as I found out whenever I stood up to pedal.

According to Dr. Mirkin, sore muscles means you have been working them to grow stronger. I think I did that.

Around the 8 or 9 miles into the ride I decided to shorten the route. Rather than ride to Huffman I would ride to Walden and then circle back home. Today’s ride was 22.84 miles long and the average speed was a lowly 13.6 mph. Every time I thought about pedaling harder and faster my sore muscles reminded me this was a recovery ride.

With the nice weather I stopped at the west end of Lake Houston on FM1960 and took these pictures (click on the image to enlarge it).

Looking northeast

Looking NNE

The picture on the left looks like I have two bikes, a big one and a little one.

I saw three bikers along the route. To get 22 miles I rode out to the middle of the causeway and then back to Atascocita Shores Drive.

Mileage standings:

• 98.96 miles this week
• 202.84 miles for February, 6 riding days so far
• 344.34 miles YTD

A cool front is supposed to arrive later tonight and I need to take my wife to the medical center tomorrow which means no ride. Friday’s weather looks too cold to ride; maybe the weatherman will be wrong. Saturday’s Humble Lions Club ride still looks possible but I will wait to see if it is anywhere close to warm enough at the start.

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