A Pair of Love Bugs Sighting, More To Follow?
I haven’t mentioned “love bugs” since spring time. Today while I was stopped at the Huffman Chevron a pair of them landed on my knee. That was the only ones I saw at the station but I think I saw some along the roads today and the last time I was in the Huffman area. I was riding the “Kingwood – Hare Cook Road – Kingwood” route which takes me among the grass farms which seems to be good breeding grounds for the “love bugs”. I don’t know if they will get more numerous in the coming days. I should’ve taken a picture of them.
The ride today was 44.5 miles long with favorable weather. The sky was overcast when I left home at 10:22 and the temperature was 85 degrees. Supposedly rain is approaching from the northwest later today so it was great I got back home (1:58) before it arrived.
About a mile east of FM2100 on Old Atascocita Road another biker approached after going around a truck and forklift unloading concrete culverts. They paused to let me ride through. With the somewhat cooler temperature I rode fast enough to get the average speed up to 15.7 mph by the 26 mile mark. When I stopped at the Huffman Chevron for a break to cool down and eat some snacks at the 32.8 mile mark the average was still at 15.7 mph. The weather while I stopped:
I arrived at the Chevron around 12:33 and left at 1:06. I used a number of paper towels trying to soak up the perspiration running down my arms. Thank goodness for wrist bands. They absorbed as much as they could but the 90% humidity and my body heat from riding was pumping out the fluid. By the time I left thanks to the cold Powerade I was cooled down to be comfortable. Riding the 11 miles home heated me up again but as long as I was moving I didn’t notice the sweat so much.
Today was the 8th time I rode the “Kingwood – Hare Cook Road – Kingwood” route this year. Below is a summary of those rides. The number of strokes is close across the rides. My definition of a stroke is the number of times the cadence magnet passes the sensor.
| Activity Name | Start | Time | Distance | Elevation Gain | Avg Speed(Avg Pace) | Max Speed(Best Pace) | Avg HR | Max HR | Calories | Total Strokes |
| Kingwood – Hare Cook Road – Kingwood | Wed, Sep 9, 2015 10:22 AM | 2:54:19 | 44.5 | 554 | 15.3 | 20.1 | — | — | 2361 | 11300 |
| Kingwood – Hare Cook Road – Kingwood | Wed, Aug 26, 2015 11:13 AM | 2:56:49 | 44.44 | 787 | 15.1 | 20.6 | — | — | 2442 | 11651 |
| Kingwood – Hare Cook Road – Kingwood | Tue, Aug 18, 2015 10:24 AM | 3:02:10 | 44.62 | 771 | 14.7 | 20.2 | — | — | 2441 | 11455 |
| Kingwood – Hare Cook Road – Kingwood | Wed, Aug 12, 2015 10:43 AM | 3:03:44 | 44.51 | 892 | 14.5 | 19.3 | — | — | 2322 | 11594 |
| Kingwood – Hare Cook Road – Kingwood | Tue, Aug 4, 2015 10:15 AM | 2:57:17 | 43.76 | 489 | 14.8 | 19.8 | — | — | 2303 | 11065 |
| Kingwood – Hare Cook Road – Kingwood | Sat, Jul 25, 2015 9:07 AM | 2:55:11 | 43.41 | 574 | 14.9 | 20.4 | — | — | 2323 | 11477 |
| Kingwood – Hare Cook Road – Kingwood | Tue, Jul 7, 2015 12:08 PM | 3:03:18 | 43.72 | 1060 | 14.3 | 20.5 | — | — | 2492 | 11163 |
| Kingwood – Hare Cook Road – Kingwood | Sat, Jun 20, 2015 9:58 AM | 2:49:47 | 43.55 | 384 | 15.4 | 22.8 | — | — | 2366 | 10935 |
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