Loud motorcycles were out in force today. Loud pickup trucks filled in the quiet times when the motorcycles weren’t around. I noticed this most when I stopped at the Huffman Chevron for a rest break while riding the “Stroker Road – Huffman” route for the 9th time this year. Two women were talking about four feet away from me while I was sitting on the curb under the pump canopy. For a period of time I could not hear their conversations for the procession of loud motorcycles and pickup trucks. Huffman is not a big time city but this is the intersection of two busy FM roads. At the time of the rest stop I biked 29.1 miles of the 40.75 miles I ended up riding.

Probably the fall like weather and sunny sky brought all of the motorcycles out but I am not sure why the loud pickups where out. A “cool” front arrived about noon today and the temperature stayed below 90 for most of the ride. The weather while I rested in Huffman:

Wind was another thing though. When I left home at 12:17 the wind was out of the NE at 13 mph. I battled it whenever I was going east or north but enjoyed when riding south and west. The worst time was when I was riding north on FM2100 from Stroker Road. The easy times were Stroker Road west to FM2100 and Huffman to Atascocita Shores Drive on FM1960. I built up the average speed to 15.4 mph during the easy places. Biking back through Atascocita Shores and into Kingwood I kept the 15.4 mph average until the 37 mile point when I hit the slow residential streets. I got back home at 3:42. The weather was so nice I didn’t sweat that much. I probably could’ve skipped the wrist bands.

I reached and surpassed my goal for September; 361.04 miles vs. the 340 mile goal. One more day to ride before I take a break until October. 5489 miles for 2015 so far.

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