Laura Devastation to The East, Interesting Skies and Hot – Bike Ride to Tavola
As I got ready for today’s bike ride I visualized the route, streets and other things. I realized this morning that is what I do before each ride. I don’t necessarily remember the street names but the sequence. If I want to add distance this is the time I plug in some streets. The route I chose for today, “New Caney – Tavola – Valley Ranch”, stuck to the usual roads and streets coming in at 34.4 miles. This ride marked the 19th time in 2020. 15 times on my Canyon Endurace (today’s ride) and 4 times on my Lynskey R300. My week now totals 124.63 miles. I might not reach 200 miles but I could get close. I needed a 40+ mile ride this week to get there.
My legs had power today. No turtles passed me. I built my overall average speed up to 13.7 mph and held it there until I returned to Kingwood. Yesterday I couldn’t do that.
On the way back when I was in Kingwood I looked to my left as I rode across an intersection on Kingwood Drive and saw another biker dressed in a bright red, white, and blue jersey. It happened so quickly and our directions went opposite with no time to fire up the GoPro.
Hurricane Laura left the building coming ashore about 30 miles east of the Texas – Louisiana state line. This spared the Houston area but devastated counties and parishes along the state. Here while it felt hot there was a coolness in the breeze as I rode along. Summer is 2/3 of the way over and maybe Laura lowered the dew point to make it feel like that. Weather for today’s bike ride: start 85 (77% humidity, 77.4 dew point), mostly cloudy, wind W 9 mph, finish 92 (59% humidity, 75.2 dew point), partly cloudy, wind NW 7 mph. I am using the CamelBak for water during the ride. I stopped on Valley Ranch Parkway at The Grand Parkway underpass for a break and eat a Clif Bar.
Though I will fall short of my goal I continue to reduce the shortfall. A recap after today’s bike ride.
After the bike ride when I started to edit the video a message popped up as I transferred the clips about a file already existed. Not thinking I clicked okay and a couple of clips disappeared. Up to now each GoPro put different filenames on clips but today I think the filenames overlapped. I “move” files from the GoPro to my computer which deletes them from the GoPro. When that happened today it deleted a couple of files without coping them. In the future I will “copy” the files and only delete them from the GoPro when I am sure there were no issues.
Link to my Strava activity page.
I compare my YTD mileage to previous years thanks to a browser extension in Chrome. The left image does that as of today. The right image is my SportTracks activity page.
