The hot weather continued for today’s bike ride. I started at 10:58 AM to bike the “New Caney – Tavola – Valley Ranch” route. I cut back the mileage from,last week’s rides logging 35.54 miles today. I took Sunday off for rest but today’s miles add to August total of 347.69 miles, 43% of the way to my 800 mile goal. I finished the ride at 2:00 PM.

Weather while I was on the ride: start 95 (62% humidity, 79.9 dew point), partly cloudy, wind SW 8 mph. Finish 98 (48% humidity, 74.5 dew point), partly cloudy, wind NW 6 mph. Supposedly the high temperatures will taper off after Tuesday as the high pressure moves out of the Houston area. When I stopped at the Circle K store in Porter at FM 1314 I bought a Fruit Punch PowerAde and went out to the pumps to drink it. Sitting in the shade with the breeze blowing through it didn’t feel that hot. The ice cold drink tasted good as a break from the blue PowerAde. I also stopped at the Shell station on Roman Forest Blvd. for ice and water before biking back to I-69/US59.

I was surprised as I rode north on Loop 494 approaching Community Drive and the Grand Parkway construction. The detour I expected to be in place for several months was gone and I stayed on Loop 494.

The video shows some of the roads and scenery along the route. I edited with Adobe Premier Elements instead of the GoPro QuikStory app on my phone.