It isn’t far from the Houston city limits to get into the country. On today’s bike ride I felt like I was in the country with cows and pastures along the “Kingwood to Ramsey Road – Huffman” route. Plenty of other bikers along the route too.

I started early at 8:18 AM hoping to see other cyclists and it didn’t take long to see the first one. From that point until I made the turn around at Ramsey Road 20 to 30 cyclists passed me, all going the opposite direction.

With the early start (for me anyway) the temperature was in the upper 70’s but the humidity was 98% making for a cool but damp start. As the ride progressed the temperature went up and the humidity went down. A few clouds dotted the sky allowing the sun to shine through. Glad I wore arm sleeves for sun protection and some cooling effect. Weather during the bike ride: start 77 (98% humidity, 76.2 dew point), a few clouds, wind calm. Finish 93 (64% humidity, 78.8 dew point), a few clouds, wind calm.

Photos of some of the cyclists I saw starting on Fairlake Drive through Old Atascocita Road west and east of FM 2100. (click on the photo to see it larger)

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I continued east to Rmasey Road where I turned left and went to the second bridge. I normally stop at the first bridge but I wanted to see what was at the second one.

These two photos show the country pasture. Cows dot the field to the left of the photo edge. The few clouds are my idea of a good summer day. Up to this point the wind had been friendly but when I started back to FM 2100 the “calm” wind provided some resistance causing me to pedal harder than I did getting there.

FM 2100 took me north to Huffman where I stopped briefly at the Huffman Chevron to refill my water bottle.

Biking west on FM 1960 I altered my route slightly to skip Walden to the south and took some side streets to Pinehurst Trail Drive to begin the northerly ride back to Kingwood. The ride north was at a slower pace but I held my average speed until the 31 mile point. I finished the ride at 11:16 AM, almost 3 hours after the start. Moving time was 2:37:21 with most the difference stopping to take the photos.

This is the 8th week in a row of 200+ miles with 213.68 miles this week. I am 27% of the way to my 800 mile goal for July.

Sunday (tomorrow) is a rest day to prepare for next week.

2019 leads all previous years in the graph by 100+ miles or more.