I watched stage 4 of the Tour de Wallonie before leaving on today’s bike ride. I decided to ride the “Stroker Road – Huffman” route but changed the direction at FM 2100 to ride south to Stroker Road and then east to Ramsey Road to Old Atascocita Road west. The roads have different look when I ride them in the opposite direction. The distance was 40.2 miles, no change from the usual direction. I am closing in on July’s goal with 747 miles of the 800 mile goal.

The bike ride started at 10:53 am, a little later than I prefer but I saw another cyclist within a half mile of the start on Woodbridge Drive. Our rides crossed before.

The weather was typical Texas July, 90 degrees at the start and 93 at the finish (2:09 pm) with a partly cloudy sky and a south 12 mph wind. The wind was strong enough to provide some cooling effect when it was a headwind. On Ramsey Road biking north the tailwind allowed me to keep my speed around 18 mph with not many watts showing on the Elemnt.

Huffman Chevron provided a 20 minute rest stop arriving at 12:56 with 28.6 miles on the Elemnt. I refilled my water bottle with ice and water and ate some snack crackers I brought along. At first sitting in the shade the breeze didn’t cool me down but after 10 minutes or so it picked up and started to cool me down and ry up some of the perspiration. The Greensheet newspaper was wet when I stood up to leave. From there to the finish was 11+ miles with most of it not battling the wind. Biking across Lake Houston on FM 1960 the wind was coming from my left at an angle that kept it from being a headwind.

More Texas July weather on tap for Wednesday and I plan on biking.

Link to RideWithGPS.com map and metrics

Strava Ride Summary (click the image to go to the Strava page)