An overcast sky wasn’t enough to keep me from bicycling today. I need to get more rides in to accomplish my mileage goal for March. Selecting the “Atascocita – Walden – Huffman” route I biked 34.58 miles increasing my month to date to 136.72 miles, 23% of my goal. I started a little earlier than usual for a weekday bike ride at 11:06 and finished at 1:35. I wanted to bicycle earlier to avoid the potential rain later in the afternoon.

Biking went as planned though the 7 mph east wind required some extra effort whenever the terrain exposed me to the wind. No other bicyclists crossed my route.

As I was riding west from Huffman an Atascocita ambulance with flashing lights raced to the east over Lake Houston. Not too far behind was an Atascocita fire truck with lights flashing. I didn’t know where they were headed but earlier at the railroad crossing at FM 2100 and FM 1960 a construction crew had the right hand lane closed. Traffic was backed up on FM 2100. I hope someone didn’t try to get through the construction zone and have an accident. As I rode west on FM 1960 before the Houston Fire Station I heard a train going east. This was before the ambulance and fire truck came. I hope it wasn’t involved.

March weather continues to be unfriendly to biking. Saturday might have rain but maybe I can ride before it arrives. Later in the day a “cool” front should pass through dropping Sunday’s temperatures into the 50’s.

Links to RideWithGPS.com and Stava.com maps and metrics.

Home weather at the start and airport weather at the end of the ride

SportTracks Ride Summary