Out the door and push the ride start button by 9 AM. That was my goal for today’s ride. I made it by a few seconds with the 8:59 start time to ride the “Kingwood – Hare Cook Road – Kingwood” route. I figured with the early start (early for me) there would be other bikers along the route. Bike Barn Atascocita has a Saturday morning ride but I have not done it because they start much earlier. Once I was through Walden I started to see bikers returning. First I saw 3, then a couple more, a 6 rider pace line on the Lake Houston causeway and many more on Fairlake Drive and Old Atascocita Road. I guess I saw 40+ bikers along the route. The last ones I saw were on approaching me on Peters Road as I rode south on Ramsey Road. I turned left and I thought they would turn on Ramsey Road to the north but they followed me from there all the way to when I turned left onto Miller Nelson Road going south. I planned to take pictures if I saw any bikers but they seemed to appear quicker than I could stop, get my phone out and snap a photo.

Weather was a little milder with the early start but it wasn’t too long before it heated up. A partly cloudy sky and a slight breeze from the SE helped cool me for awhile along with the ice water in my water bottle. My home weather station at the beginning and end of the ride.

Ride start

Ride end

This route is a 40+ mile route and today I rode 43.27 miles. This improved June miles to 745 miles, 230 miles short of my goal for June. I won’t hit my goal but I should be about 120 miles closer.

I took a rest break at my usual place, the Huffman Chevron. It was different being there so much earlier than usual. I was able to sit in a spot that would be in the sun at my typical arrival time. This spot has a better view and is not in the way of parking cars. The Elemnt screens when I arrived.

It was 11:15 when I stopped at the station and I left around 11:45. I took this opportunity to rinse out my gloves and wrist bands. The sweat soaked them and paper towels didn’t do much drying them out so I took the garden hose and wet them. Squeezing them let loose the built up sweat and later they felt cool as I rode home. The cold Powerade and snacks revived me for the 11+ miles to home. I made good time riding west on FM1960 with the wind at my left rear quarter. It became more of a tailwind riding through Atascocita Shores and north on W. Lake Houston Parkway. Saturday morning traffic was light and it didn’t take long to cross Kingwood Drive and wind through the streets back home. I stopped the ride at 12:41. Many rides that is the time I start riding.

More of the same weather tomorrow. I plan a shorter ride after church to wrap up the week. So far I am on a 13 consecutive day biking streak. Maybe I can add 4 more days to the streak.

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