After my stay in the hospital I thought my legs would be sore when I started biking again. But my right bicep is sore. I didn’t realize how much I use my arms when biking especially into the wind. Maybe it is sore because that was the arm with the IV.

I set out on my Canyon Endurace bike at 10:36 AM riding the “Kingwood – FM1485 – Kingwood” route. The wind fought me all the way to Caney Creek when I made the big u-turn under US59 to head back to Kingwood. I biked 31.2 miles clawing back a little of the miles I need to reach my goal. Today marked the 10th time on this route in 2020; 7 times on my Canyon Endurace and 3 times on the Lynskey R300. I saw another cyclist early in the ride but he surprised before I could start the GoPro camera.

No bills in the grass today but plenty of weather news. Hurricane Laura appears to be heading to SE Texas and SW Louisiana but not for sure exactly where or how strong for now. Weather for today’s ride had hints of the change with the north 7 mph wind and high clouds. Weather for the ride: start 87 (61% humidity, 71.8 dew point), partly cloudy, wind NE 7 mph. Finish 94 (46% humidity, 70.3 dew point), partly cloudy, wind N 12 mph. While it didn’t feel that hot (to me anyway) when I finished at 1:17 PM salt stains adorned my kit as you can see in the video.

My August mileage goal looks out of reach between my hospital stay and the upcoming weather but I made some progress with today’s bike ride.

Link to my Strava activity page.