Two milestones with today’s bike ride: June total miles stand at 801.54, 1.54 miles over my goal, and my Canyon Endurace CF SLX bike passed 11,105 miles since I bought it in February 2018. All of this happened after I rode on the “Kingwood – FM1485 – Kingwood” route for 30.22 miles. My next goal is 200+ miles for the week with 92 miles left to reach that.

Due to a morning commitment I started the bike ride at 12:31 PM and chose the shorter route to fit my time window. I finished the ride at 2:50 PM.

Weather during the bike ride: start 87 (81% humidity, 80 dew point), overcast, wind E 9 mph. Finish 85 (77% humidity, 77 dew point), mostly cloudy, wind SW 8 mph. The humidity makes for sweaty rides and I am ready for it to go down. Thursday the weather is supposed to changed and maybe the humidity and dew points will go down some. The sky looked threatening to the west southwest as I rode back to Kingwood but I got home without rain.

After yesterday’s ride I replaced the Shimano cleats on my Sidi Road shoes. Now the pedals and cleats operate smoother. The old cleats should have been replaced several weeks ago.

Physical activity data points during today’s ride:

• average heart rate: 123 bps (70% of max)
• max heart rate: 146 bps (83% of max)
• average power: 119 watts
• max power: 464 watts

The wind didn’t require too much extra effort to get through it unlike yesterday when I rode over Lake Houston.

2019 continues to lead all years since 2011.