A new week and a new month but an old problem popped up this morning. I went out to the garage to unlock and do my morning bike tire check. Front tire checked great, rear tire checked soft. I brought the wheel inside to find the problem. I suspected the flat I had last Monday might be the cause after looking at the tire tread and not finding anything sticking in or out. Visual inspection of the tube around the patch didn’t find a leak but the water test did. As I suspected my patch was slowly leaking a bubble or two per second. The tube only has two patches and I hated to replace it. I pealed off the patch and saw it was barely covering the hole. Cleaning up the area I applied glue and waited for it to dry and then positioned a new patch over the hole. Then I aired up the tube and did a water test again. No leaking air. The tube went back in the tire and I mounted the tire, aired it up and put it back on the bike. I wasn’t riding for another hour and I went out to check before I got dressed. The tire was rock hard and ready to ride.

After watching the Tour de Portugal I got ready and started the ride at 12:18 on the “Atascocita South – Walden – Huffman” route. My goal for August is 800 miles and I wanted to ride 30+ miles. I biked 33.55 miles today, about 4% of my goal. I figure I need to ride 200+ miles each week to hit my goal; 167 miles to go this week. I will watch the Tour of Utah on my DVR shortly.

It was hot today and this week it could hit 100 several days. My home weather station reports are below.

I stopped at the Huffman Chevron at 21.2 miles into the ride. The shade was nice and I dried off as I rested. At first I thought the wind wasn’t going to blow but it slowly started moving.

After resting about 30 minutes I was back on the bike headed home for the final 11+ miles. I finished the ride at 3:17.

Maybe I can start earlier tomorrow.

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Home Weather Station – Start and Finish