Only 17 miles to go to reach my 968 mile goal for June! If I need to I will ride in the rain tomorrow around Kingwood to get those miles.

I mixed up streets for today’s route coming up with what I labeled the “Fairlake Drive – May Park Community Center – Huffman” ride. I rode a variation of this route on June 23rd but today I modified it to get the mileage up to 42.37 miles. East of Lake Houston I went south on Fairlake Drive, Old Atascocita Road and FM2100 before going east on FM1960 to Huffman-Eastgate. The previous ride I went north of Fm1960 on E. Lake Houston, Smith Road, FM2100 and Wolf Road to May Park. Today was counterclockwise versus clockwise.

I was wondering why I couldn’t get my speed up to 20 mph and when I got home I checked the Houston IAH weather station showed a south wind at 12 mph and gusts to 23 mph. That explains some of the resistance. I think tired legs is another reason from trying to reach my goal for June. I biked 24 out of 29 days so far. Besides the wind the temperature was 90 degrees when I checked during the rest stop in Huffman. Humidity was 64% and i was pretty wet from all of the sweat.

Near the end of the rest stop at the Huffman Chevron I thought I heard thunder to the southwest but dismissed that when a caravan of loud 18 wheelers pulled up to the traffic light at FM2100 & FM1960. Later biking west on FM1960 to Lake Houston I hear more thunder to the southwest. As I rode across Lake Houston looking south between the causeway and the railroad bridge it looked like it was raining and the wind picked up even more. To the north the sky was blue with white clouds. As I turned north on Atascocita Shores Drive I looked in my rear view mirror and saw a brownish gray sky. I thought I better hurry home in case they came towards me. I made it home with no rain but the wind did came in some strong gusts as I rode through Kings River. Riding across Lake Houston on FM1960 required a firm grip on the handle bars to control the bike because of the wind. Traffic going my direction made the wind effect worse.

A new pair of Bellwether Forma shorts moved in to replace a pair of Voler Avante shorts with a rubbed spot from the saddle bag Velcro. I prefer the Forma shorts over the Newton pair. Interesting the pad on the Newton shorts has a 4 – 7 hour ride time while the Forma shorts are 3 – 6 hour.

There is a chance of rain tomorrow but I plan on biking. I will reach my goal!!

Huffman weather

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