Weather delayed the start of today’s bike ride as I waited for the temperature to move towards the high for the day of 74. I gave up and decided to pull cool weather clothing from the back of the closet. I thought the cool biking days were done until fall but not the case. I wore shorts, a long sleeve thermal jersey, and a windbreaker jacket. I rolled away on my Lynskey R300 bike at 12:23 PM following my “Kingwood – FM 1485 – Kingwood” route. For a second or two I was tempted to wait longer but my confidence in getting warmer wasn’t high.

While waiting I watched stage 5 of the Giro d’Italia and stage 1 of The Tour of Hungary.

Yesterday evening a cool front that lingered north of Houston finally moved through lowering the temperature after a brief rain. It hung around dropping the temperature 20 degrees from yesterday’s high. Weather when I started and finished: start 66 (88% humidity, 62.6 dew point), overcast, wind N 9 mph; finish 69 (81% humidity, 63.1 dew point), overcast, wind N 12 mph. Biking north the chilly headwind emphasized why I like it in the 80’s and 90’s. After the turn at Caney Creek the tailwind helped me set a good pace back to Kingwood. The wind didn’t feel so chilly then.

I didn’t want to fall behind on the way to a 200 mile week and then need to catch up later in the week. Today’s 31.34 miles increased the week to 113.7 miles reducing the need for a 40+ mile ride.

A result of today’s ride was getting two “Local Legend” awards from Strava.