More beautiful weather for today’s bike ride. Weather during the bike ride: 11:39 am start 80 (53% humidity), clear, wind N 6 mph. 2:51 pm finish 84 (48% humidity), clear, wind variable 6 mph. It was so nice I left the long sleeve jersey at home and wore shorts with a short sleeve jersey. It was nice for the wind to be less than yesterday.

To try to reach my goal of 40+ miles I chose the “May Park Community Center – Huffman” route and biked 41.55 miles, the same as yesterday. Very unusual for two days to be the same distance on different routes. This increases April biking to 563.6 miles leaving 36.4 miles to reach my 600 mile goal.

I wasn’t sure if I would see another cyclist along the route but I saw a cyclist riding west over Lake Houston while I rode to the east.

The route is one of the few that takes me into Liberty County but only by a couple tenths of a mile. I stopped at the county line and took these photos. The first is before I rode into Liberty County and the second is returning back to Harris County. Notice the size of the signs.

While I standing along side of the road after taking the photos I heard the train whistle to the west. It was around 1:20 pm and the Amtrak train could be the source so I waited and took these photos as it headed east to Beaumont and finally New Orleans.

After the train passed I got back on the Canyon and rode to the May Community Center. From there I headed west to FM 2100. Arriving at the traffic light I waited for it to change and finally gave up and went north to make a u-turn and cross the road. About the time I was going to do that traffic increased and a couple of cars arrived to trip the traffic light I had left. I would have been ahead to wait at the traffic light.

The ride south on FM 2100 went quickly with the help of the light wind and when I arrived at FM 1960 I stopped at the Huffman Chevron for a short break. I refilled my water bottle and ate a snack I brought. While I was there I saw my first pair of “love bugs” of the season. On an earlier ride I saw one but not a pair. I hope the swarms are small this season. After the rest I rode west on FM 1960 with a nice tempo. I was able to increase my average speed to 15.0 mph and then 15.1 mph. I held the 15.0 mph average until I crossed Kingwood Drive where it start to decrease as I made my way to the finish. The Kingwood High School traffic had not started yet and I crossed Kingwood Drive without stopping for traffic.

More great weather on tap for Wednesday biking.

SportTracks Bike Ride Summary