Despite a rain promising weather forecast I decided to go for a bike ride rather than a virtual ride. The sky contained some dark clouds at 10:57 AM start but after checking the weather radar and seeing the rain far to the north and south away from where the “New Caney – Tavola – Valley Ranch” route took me I got ready and left.

The route produced 36.34 miles of biking improving October’s total to 425.27 miles, 275 miles short of my goal for October. With 16 potential riding days left I think I can reach the goal if the weather doesn’t collapse.

Weather conditions: start 82 (75% humidity, 73.0 dew point), mostly cloudy, wind E 6 mph. Finish 84 (77% humidity, 76.4 dew point), mostly cloudy, wind SW 4 mph.

During the ride the sky harbored some blue spots but those moved around as the gray clouds shifted places. Biking through Woodridge Forest I felt a fine mist on my face and I saw some wet spots on my glasses and Elemnt computer.With the blue spots I saw in the sky I felt certain the mist wouldn’t last long and it didn’t. What did last was the temperature. From an overnight low around 68 it warmed up to 82 at the start and then 84 when I finished about 1:50 PM. At the beginning of the bike ride my outfit felt under dressed but by the time I warmed up after several miles I began to sweat. Wind wasn’t much of a factor in the ride. Biking north to Tavola a tailwind assisted some and my fear of a headwind on the ride back south didn’t materialize. Once I built my overall average speed up to 14.2 mph riding south I maintained it until entering Kings Manor for the last few miles to finish the bike ride. The Relive app shows the animated ride on the route.

Relive ‘New Caney – Tavola – Valley Ranch’

No water stops on the ride. It wasn’t hot enough and I kept looking at the dark clouds moving around and wanted to finish without getting rained on. I finished without getting rained on but I thought I heard some distant thunder when rode into Kingwood.

Rain might interfere with Tuesday bike ride but I will wait and see. If it does then Zwift will call me.