A late start on today’s bike ride (3:32 pm) and it was hot, 98 degrees. Sometimes plans do not come together. Yesterday was a scheduled rest day and I planned on bicycling today but yesterday when I took my wife to the medical center the treatment center forgot to order one of her drugs so we went back today for the treatment. I wanted to ride 200+ miles this week and if I didn’t ride today it would be very difficult to get that many miles. So after her treatment we stopped at McDonald’s in Kingwood and then I got ready to ride. Usually I am finished riding by now so I selected a route I thought would be 25 miles or more. Today’s route, “Kingwood-Community Drive-Valley Ranch”, turned out to be 27.3 miles long boosting this week to 154.6 miles. The last time I rode this route was 3/28/2012.

Riding through Woodridge Forest in  section under construction I took these pictures. I rode my Blue Norcross AL bike for variety and because the ride was shorter than normal.

The house are along the new streets added in the western end of Woodridge Forest creating the new exit from there. They don’t show up on my Elemnt computer when I look at the map screen. On a ride I need to write the street names down and add them to the maps. One name is Broad Turtle Drive.

Besides being hot the scattered clouds didn’t block out much sun, glad I wore sunscreen. I wore a new Primal Wear jersey, “Bike Print Red”, that I bought on clearance.

I bought two other jerseys and will rotate them into the wear cycle.

If I ride 35 miles tomorrow and 25  miles on Sunday I will reach my 200+ mile goal for the week. Now if that plan comes together June miles will be ahead of schedule for my goal. The weather will be hot and dry; maybe isolated showers.

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