I rolled into the Stripes station on FM1314 at 12:55 after riding 26.1 miles. I knew it was hot but I didn’t think it was this hot:

It has been hot and dry for many days now. I am glad our home A/C is working now too. I even had to adjust the thermostat up to 80 degrees because it was too cold; we didn’t have that problem on Sunday.

Riding the “New Caney – Gene Campbell Road” route today I left home after watching stage 2 of Eneco Tour on EuroSport at 11:00. It was already heating up then at my home weather station.

After a 30 minute break at the Stripes station I headed home feeling hotter than when I arrived there. I could feel fleeting coolness whenever I rode through some shade  and even rode closer to the edge of the road to get in the shade. Oakhurst had the most shade until I got to Kingwood. The ride was 37.48 miles long. My legs weren’t that great today and the average speed shows it. The weather says the wind was calm but it seemed when I rode every direction but southeast I had a headwind slowing me down more than normal. I got home at 2:23 and the home weather showed this.

Triple digit temperature on both weather sensors. The Bush Airport weather was 102 degrees too. Perfect training for the Hotter’n Hell 100 in a 18 days. Wednesday (tomorrow) could be even hotter. Today was the 16th consecutive day biking. The dry weather contributes to this string.

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