Back on the Canyon Endurace CF SLX bike for today’s bike ride. After biking to the north yesterday I chose a southerly route that I label “Kingwood to Ramsey Road – Huffman”. The ride began at 10:30 AM and I finished at 1:35 PM. during that time I rode 37.83 miles. My week’s total stands at 79.17 miles and 312.03 miles for the month. I am 39% of the way to reaching my 800 mile goal for June. Today was the 6th time to ride this route in 2020; 5 times on the Canyon Endurace and 1 time on the Lynskey R300. A summary of the bike rides.

For June the weather was hot. With 90 degrees at the start and 96 at the finish I filled my CamelBak close to capacity with ice and water. After biking 2:45:50 I was surprised when I got home and emptied the CamelBak to see a few ice cubes still remaining. That’s better than my CamelBak water bottles. Weather summary during my time riding: start 90 (70% humidity, 79.2 dew point), partly cloudy, wind S 10 mph. Finish 96 (57% humidity, 78 dew point), partly cloudy, wind variable 7 mph. The wind didn’t hinder my biking much nor did it provide much cooling.

After reaching Ramsey Road I took these pictures.

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Harris County crews working on the drainage areas is why the debris piles line the road. No idea when they will finish.

Getting to Ramsey Road meant working against an almost headwind. I thought getting back to FM 2100 the wind would be more helpful but it attacked me from the left front quarter until I got to the trees along the south side of Old Atascocita Road. On FM 2100 a tailwind helped me ride to Huffman and FM 1960. From my experience on Old Atascocita Road I figured biking west on FM 1960 the left side wind would try to slow me and I was right. On the west side of Lake Houston the route turned north and the tailwind assisted me all the way to Kingwood.