Wrapping up the week’s bike rides I chose to ride the Kingwood streets traveling 22.63 miles. I started at 1:41 PM after getting home from church and a trip to the attic to light the water heater and finished at 3:27 PM. With today’s miles the week’ bike rides came in at 224.02 miles. Since the week ending March 9th except for 1 week I rode 200+ miles or 8 out of the last 9 weeks. I was able to reach the 200+ miles this week with 6 bike rides. A summary of the week’s bike rides are below. I rode the Lynskey R300 bike today.

For Mother’s Day the weather was picture perfect with a bright blue sky. When I got up this morning the temperature was in the mid 50’s but by ride time it warmed up so that all I needed to wear was shorts and a short sleeve jersey. Weather while I biked around Kingwood: start 78 (49% humidity, 57.2 dew point), a few clouds, wind E 8 mph. Finish 81 (45% humidity, 57.6 dew point), a few clouds, wind E 12 mph.

Several groups of people seemed to be celebrating Mother’s Day. In Woodridge Forest one home had a large BBQ pit trailer cooking away in the driveway. At another home a group of people sat in lawn chairs under a large tree in the front yard. On Cedar Knoll Drive a family of 6 or 7 walked along the side of the street. Driving home from church numerous restaurants’ drive through lanes had cars waiting. In Town Center one restaurant seated people outside, separated safely. For me, Mother’s Day this year is different. My wife passed away in 2019 and my mother passed away in 2013 so the mother’s in my life are no longer around but their memories are.

Year to date biking surpasses all previous years at this point with 3,361 miles. The graph below compares biking miles since 2011.