September biking got off to a hot start. I rolled my Canyon Endurace bike out the driveway at 11:20 AM headed for the”Kingwood to Ramsey Road – Huffman” route. I biked 36.84 miles putting me ahead of the pace needed to reach my 700 mile goal for September. I need to ride 23.34 miles each day and unlike August when I didn’t ride the first day and got behind quickly I am ahead for now. Once I get behind it requires extra effort to catch up.

I am making progress for the week too with 77.86 miles so far. If watching the Tour de France before going on my bike ride doesn’t inhibit me too much I can reach 200 miles for the week.

It may be a new month but August weather is still with us. 92 degrees at the start made it feel like a sauna and it went up from there to 97 when I finished at 2:26 PM. What it was like: start 92 (68% humidity, 80.2 dew point), mostly cloudy, wind S 12 mph. Finish 97 (56% humidity, 79.1 dew point), mostly cloudy, wind S 8 mph gusts 17 mph. At the rest stop was the first time the wind felt good. I stood in the shade eating a Clif Bar drinking cold water from my CamelBak.

In 2020 I biked today’s route 9 times, 6 on my Canyon Endurace and 3 times on my Lynskey R300. The last time was on August 13th and the first time this year was March 14th. A summary of the rides.

With the wind Strava reported today’s bike ride was harder than my usual efforts.