Fall Bike Ride On Kingwood’s Trails
After several days off the bike I hit the Kingwood greenbelt trails for today’s ride. Fall brings leaves and pine needles down on the trails but the path was clear. The last couple of days have been overcast and I wasn’t drawn to the bike as much as when the sun is out and the temperature warmer. I started the ride at 1:30 and the temperature was 71 degrees but I knew riding on the trails it would be cooler so I wore a long sleeve jersey and a windbreaker jacket. This was just right and when I got home (2:45) and took the jacket off my jersey was soaked. The temperature was down to 69 degrees and the wind was out of the ESE at 10 mph though on the trails the wind wasn’t much of a problem.
I don’t ride my Motobecane MTB very often with today being the 9th time this year. I am a road bike rider.
As I started the ride I wanted to stop and take some pictures. Here is what I saw. (Nexus 6 phone took these)
Riding my MTB makes me feel slow with the wider tires and lower gearing. I try to keep my cadence in the 80’s like when I am on my road bike. The MTB weighs much more than my road bike. I should weigh it someday.
With today’s ride I am only 105 miles away from my 6500 mile goal for 2015. I should be able to ride tomorrow (MTB again, I think) but Monday the weather looks wet.
Garmin Connect Ride Data & Charts still does not have an embed code. RideWithGPS.com and Strava do.
Summary of my MTB rides in 2015.
| Activity Name | Start | Time | Distance | Elevation Gain | Avg Speed(Avg Pace) | Max Speed(Best Pace) | Calories | Total Strokes |
| Kingwood Trails | Sat, Nov 14, 2015 1:03 PM | 1:34:41 | 18.12 | 112 | 11.5 | 19.8 | 729 | 5702 |
| Kingwood Trails | Tue, Nov 3, 2015 2:49 PM | 1:00:59 | 11.78 | 69 | 11.6 | 15.9 | 473 | 3751 |
| Kingwood Trails | Mon, Sep 7, 2015 12:22 PM | 1:51:49 | 20.38 | 262 | 10.9 | 15.7 | 943 | 6297 |
| Kingwood Trails | Sun, Aug 9, 2015 12:16 PM | 1:40:39 | 19.43 | 197 | 11.6 | 20.9 | 915 | 5673 |
| Kingwood Trails | Wed, Jun 3, 2015 12:48 PM | 1:06:14 | 10.11 | 89 | 9.2 | 14.4 | 422 | 3094 |
| Kingwood Trails | Tue, Jun 2, 2015 3:20 PM | 1:16:58 | 11.73 | 151 | 9.1 | 20.2 | 480 | 3682 |
| Kingwood Trails | Fri, May 29, 2015 3:06 PM | 1:48:37 | 15.41 | 131 | 8.5 | 20.6 | 663 | 4892 |
| Kingwood Trails | Fri, Feb 13, 2015 2:46 PM | 1:11:49 | 13.08 | 154 | 10.9 | 20.2 | 607 | 4444 |
| Kingwood Trails | Tue, Jan 6, 2015 12:51 PM | 1:36:22 | 18.86 | 217 | 11.7 | 17.6 | 887 | 6500 |
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