July bike rides wrapped up with today’s bike ride. What a month of biking; Heat, rained on bike rides, COVID-19, a flat tire. What else could you ask for? Along with those things I enjoyed seeing nature as I rode my bike, waving and saying hi to fellow cyclists, and being outside. Today I biked 38.22 miles following what I call the “New Caney – Gene Campbell Road” route. I started at 10:28 AM after watching stage 4 of Vuelta a Burgos on Flobikes.com. With those miles July ended with 922.93 miles, the 4th month in a row at 900+ miles. My week totals 156.54 miles, close enough to 200+ that if I ride the next 2 days I could get to number. So far in 2020 I rode this route 11 times, with today being the longest by .3 of a mile. Of those 11 rides, 7 were on the Canyon Endurace (today) and 4 were on the Lynskey R300. A summary of the 11 rides.

Watch the video to learn about the apple fritter substitute.

The last bike ride to the north ended in the rain but not today. Sunshine and heat accompanied me all the way. The wind at the start was a gentle 7 mph from the SW but as I rode to the finish it ramped up to 13 mph with 20 mph gusts from the SW. No wonder it was hard pedaling into the headwind on Gene Campbell Blvd. What the weather looked like during the ride: start 89 (76% humidity, 80.5 dew point), mostly cloudy, wind SW 7 mph. Finish 95 (59% humidity, 78.2 dew point), partly cloudy, wind SW 13 mph gusts 20 mph. Even with the wind my average speed held at 14.1 to 14.2 mph for a long time.

During July I rode 27 days. 3 of the 4 days off were due to rain with the other as a rest day. Starting July I biked 11 days in a row before taking that rest day. I sat on the bike 68 hours, 22 minutes, and 51 seconds. My average ride distance was 34.18 miles. The shortest ride was on July 28th (11.3 miles because of rain) and the longest on July 9th (44.6 miles). A summary of July.

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