A week ago the weather turned nasty but today it turned beautiful. I delayed the start of the bike while waiting for the appliance delivery truck to arrive with my replacement washing machine. My old one was a victim of the cold weather I think or just decided to break in sympathy. I rolled away at 1:07 PM on my Canyon Endurace bike planning on biking my “Atascocita – Walden – FM 2100” route. I followed the route until I got to Fairlake Lane. When I arrived there cars were backed up from the south as far as I could see and not moving except when one turned around and retreated to FM 1960. I have never seen this happen before on Fairlake Lane. Guessing I thought there was a problem at the railroad crossing on Old Atascocita Road or at FM 2100 where the construction is.

Since the traffic was jammed I changed the route to “Atascocita – Walden – E Lake Houston Parkway”. Instead of biking 31+ miles I settled for 28.4 miles. February biking is running into all kind of problems. I did reduce the difference between February 2020 and February 2021 to 32 miles. Reaching my 400 road mile goal for February keeps getting harder.

With the later start the temperature had time to add a couple more degrees. Weather conditions for the bike ride: start 72 (25% humidity, 33.9 dew point), fair, wind N 3 mph; finish 73 (19% humidity, 28.6 dew point), fair, wind N 12 mph. No need for leg warmers but I did wear a long sleeve jersey and windbreaker jacket. I thought with all of the cold weather last week that riding across Lake Houston the wind would be cold as blew over the water but the sun more than offset it.

Looking at the ride summary in Golden Cheetah I see better results than yesterday. Maybe I am building back after the week off the bike. 51% of the riding time was in power zones 3 through 7. The light wind probably helped and reduced the need to be in zones 6and 7 as much.