This was the second time I biked the “Fairlake Drive – May Park Community Center – Huffman” route this year. Surprisingly the mileage today, 42.35 miles, was within .02 of the other ride even though the streets are not identical. I am not sure how I did that. Below is the summary of both rides.

I looked at the route I rode on June 29th before leaving home to get an idea of where I rode. As I was riding I had a general idea of where I rode before but I substituted a few streets before I crossed over Lake Houston to the east.  When I got to Huffman the second time and stopped at the Chevron I was 30.8 miles into the ride. I always calculate it is 11.4 miles from the Chevron station to home. I sometimes take a different way through Atascocita past the country club and this adds 1/3 of mile.

Today was another hot day. According to the weather people the next several days could be 102 to 105 degrees. Yesterday I rode early with high humidity but today I left home at 10:09 and the humidity was lower. That didn’t help with sweating though. I stopped at the Chevron on the west side of Lake Houston to top off my water bottle and the sweat rolled down my arms. Thankfully I didn’t leave the wrist bands at home today. My gloves did not get soaked like yesterday. I stopped next at the May Community Center to fill my water bottle to get to the Huffman Chevron for a rest break. The weather screenshots while I was at the Huffman Chevron.

I arrived at the Chevron about 12:25 and selected my break position under the canopy. Normally I get Powerade but today when I tried the fountain machine it sent clear water into my cup. I filled the cup with ice and water and told the cashier the problem. Another lady went to check the machine. She said it had the blue substance and went to the fountain machine to test it. Out poured blue Powerade. I don’t know what I did but I kept the water and ice. It was $.27 instead of the $1.07 for the Powerade so I saved a few pennies.

While I was resting my wife called me because she couldn’t find a program on her computer that she uses all the time. I upgraded her computer to Windows 10 a few days ago and everything is different. We tried to find it but I couldn’t remember where it was. As I was getting ready to leave she sent me a text message that she had found it. I told her she was a good Sherlock Holmes. (When I got home I pinned the program to the taskbar) Pulling away from the station I was on the way home. The south 9 mph breeze slowed me some as I rode west on FM1960 to Atascocita Shores Drive where I turn to the north. I recovered the speed going north although Atascocita Shores is not the smoothest concrete surface. Over the years the various patches settled and the bumps and cracks cause to get out of the saddle frequently. I got back home at 1:58. The weather at my home weather station at the end of the ride.

The 97.9 temperature is in the shade while the 99.7 is the weather station in the sun. More of the same tomorrow. August miles are up to 267.47 and today was the 12th consecutive day biking. I am averaging 37.8 miles per ride in August.

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