I didn’t ride the Tour de Houston but I did ride the “Oakhurst – Valley Ranch” route this afternoon starting at 12:29 pm and finishing at 2:25 pm. I wanted to ride far enough to get 200+ miles for the week and accomplished that by biking 26.28 miles. A summary of the week’s biking. (Click on the image to enlarge it)

The weather is starting to feel spring like. Today’s weather during the bike ride: start 80 (76% humidity) partly cloudy, finish 83 (71% humidity) mostly cloudy, wind calm. It was warm enough that I wore shorts and a short sleeve jersey, no long sleeves required. Sunscreen was applied. My pale arms will probably start to get tanned.

Nothing unusual or outstanding along the route except the azaleas continue to bloom with extraordinary color. Maybe all of the rain from Hurricane Harvey fired them up?

More good biking weather on Monday. Schools are back from spring break so traffic will be back. Also TXDot is starting work on the I-69/US59 bridge over the San Jacinto river and I am not sure how this will affect my biking. Time will tell since the repairs could last until August.

SportTracks Bike Ride Summary (Click the image to enlarge and go to the live page)

Strava bike ride summary

SportTracks Bike Ride Summary March to Date (click to enlarge)