I almost started the bike ride after 11 AM but hurrying it started at 10:46 AM. I chose the “New Caney – Roman Forest Blvd – Oakhurst” route because of the almost late start and biked 32.84 miles. This was the 4th time to ride this route in 2020 and all were on the Canyon Endurace CF SLX bike. The Canyon reached 17,276 miles with this ride. My week totals 187.26 miles and June totals 630.44 miles, just 170 miles short of my goal. Getting 200+ miles this week looks probable.

With all of the road construction on some of my routes it is hard to come up with variety. The route names may be different but it usually means a different combination of streets and roads that I bike on regularly. Today a stretch of the US59 northbound frontage road from the north end of Loop 494 to Roman Forest Blvd (about 1/2 a mile) was the only part of the route I don’t ride on very often.

The weather is slowly changing to more clouds and humidity. I peeked at next week’s forecast and the latter part of the week looks wet. In the meantime today’s weather: start 89 (67% humidity, 76.7 dew point), partly cloudy, wind SE 10 mph. Finish 90 (62% humidity, 75 dew point), mostly cloudy, wind SE 16 mph. Surprisingly the temperature didn’t get into the mid 90’s like the other days this week. The CamelBak kept the water cold and refreshing. Arm sleeves continue to be the sunscreen for my arms. The wind helped me ride north and lightly punished me on the return to Kingwood.

Nothing out of the ordinary in today’s video, just lots of clouds. which can form strange objects. Dark clouds hung off of my route but never got around to dropping any rain though we need it to avoid drought.

For some reason I developed the desire to look at mountain bikes. We don’t have any mountains and my last MTB left because I didn’t ride it much. The Kingwood greenbelt trails offer a place to ride a MTB with over 70 miles but I don’t know if I would use it.