The weather lion did not appear on the last bike ride in March. The say goes for March weather “in like a lion and out like a lamb” or the reverse, “in like a lamb and out like a lion.” The weather was great with partly cloudy sky, 84 degrees (home weather station) and a light wind. When I was getting ready to leave on the ride the weather at IAH airport showed some hefty wind from the WSW at 13 mph and 20 mph gusts but this let up by the time I got home.

Weather when I stopped at the Huffman Chevron

My legs did better today thanks to some Advil and not riding quite as far or over a tall railroad overpass. I rode the usual “Atascocita – Walden – Huffman” route leaving home at 11:49 and returning at 2:26. I saw two other bicyclists on the west side of Lake Houston on FM1960. They were going west and I was going east. Riding east over Lake Houston was one of the sections I was able to ride at 20+ mph. the rest of the ride I always seemed to be struggling into the wind. I rode 32.6 miles with an overall average speed of 14.8 mph. I slowly built my average speed up to 15.0 mph until I got back into Kingwood. By the 30 mile point it started to go down from all of the starts and stops.

March has been my most active month so far this year. Biking 17 days out of 31 I rode a total of 575.42 miles, averaging 33.85 miles per ride. With today’s ride I made it over the 1,000 miles mark for the year at 1010 miles. I rode 31 days this year so far, for an average of 32.58 miles per ride. Now that I am getting some consistent biking in I hope to get conditioning to the point I was last year. When the yard work lets up I can go for some longer rides too.

April 1st weather looks iffy with 50% chance of rain mid-afternoon. I hope to ride before it arrives.

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