More sun during today’s bike ride but the summer heat is holding off for now. The bike ride started at 9:37 AM, a little later than I planned but acceptable. I chose the “New Caney – Roman Forest – Valley Ranch” route and biked 41.24 miles, boosting the week’s total to 183.33 miles on the way to 200+ for the week. June rolls up to 876.42 miles, 76.42 miles over my goal.

More on the weather during the bike ride: start 82 (82% humidity, 75.7 dew point), partly cloudy with haze, wind NE 5 mph. Finish 91 (66% humidity, 77.7 dew point), partly cloudy, wind W 5 mph. After the May strong winds the last several rides have been in light breezes except for the trek across Lake Houston this week.

As I biked through Woodridge Forest the news home under construction caught my eye and I took these photos.

The west side of the development is starting to fill up but a few of the homes show “available” rather than “sold”.

Once I arrived at Tavola on the way to Roman Forest I stopped and took these photos of the intersection beautification.

In the background of the first photo construction crews are building more streets.

Riding through Roman Forest several streets have fresh coats of new asphalt making for smooth biking where there used to be some rough places. On the way back out of Roman Forest I stopped at the Shell station for ice and water.

I decided to stay on Valley Ranch Parkway all the way to FM 1314 and stopped at the Stripes store for another refill of ice and water to carry me to the finish. From there I kept the same pace and held my average speed at 14.4 mph until the 37 mile point as I entered Kingwood. I finished at 12:50 PM.

Strava says today’s bike ride was harder than your usual effort. Some physical data points:

• average heart rate: 131 bps (75%)
• max heart rate: 152 bps (87%)
• average power output: 101 watts
• max power output: 411 watts

Saturday’s bike ride should be long enough to reach the 200+ miles for the week and the weather looks to repeat today’s.

2019 leads all years in the graph but 2018 and 2016 trail by less than 95 miles.