A great short sleeve jersey bike ride day on the “New Caney – Tavola – Valley Ranch” cycling route. I left the long sleeve jersey at home and didn’t miss it on today’s bike ride. The clear blue sky, 83 degree temperature and SSW 9 mph breeze combined to make this an abnormal November bicycling day. I didn’t bike on this date last year probably because the weather was not near today’s.

Making good time and feeling strong I skipped the rest break when I came to the Stripes station on FM1314 and Valley Ranch Parkway. I stopped for the traffic light to change and then rode across FM1314. This came at the 22.1 mile point of what ended up as a 33.24 mile long bike ride around 1:31 PM. The ride began at 11:51 and finished at 2:08. It didn’t take very long to ride from the Stripes station to the end. I usually allow 45 minutes for the last 11 miles but today I kept my overall average speed at 15.5 mph for about 10 miles until I rode into Kingwood when it slowly declined.

No other bicyclists along the route today. They missed the beautiful weather but they probably have to work.

One more day before the forecasted “cold” front arrives on Friday. Tomorrow should be a repeat of today. Today’s weather at the end of the ride.

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