Starting today’s bike ride at 10:53 AM was a good thing. If I waited later I probably would’ve been delayed by rain at my home. Or when I finished. While I biked to the south and east on my “Kingwood to Ramsey Road – Huffman” route it rained behind me. I rode my Lynskey R300 bike covering 38.56 miles. This was my first bike ride since Saturday. Sunday intermittent light rain after I got home from church kept me indoors where I caught up on a number of bike races on GCN+. Yesterday I wanted to go for a ride but after finishing breakfast radar showed heavy rain approaching. It ended up raining 3.58″ according to my home weather station.

Surprisingly missing biking those days didn’t put me further behind 2020 YTD miles. After today’s bike ride I trail 2020 by 158 miles, a few less than before. 2021 stands at 3,617 miles.

Biking east the sky looked better than behind as you can see in the video. At the start a light drizzle fell for a couple of miles. Later as I rode west over Lake Houston the drizzle reappeared. On the west side of the lake the streets were wet but no rain fell as I rode back to Kingwood. Good timing to avoid riding in the rain but my Lynskey R300 got plenty of grit and a wash after I finished at 2:03 PM.

Photos at the bridge on Ramsey Road. The drainage ditch water behind the bike usually is lower but with all of the rain it’s moving water away.

Wind posed a problem on the way to Ramsey Road. My legs struggled pedaling into the headwind. After a short stop at the bridge on Ramsey Road I turned around and headed back. The sky looked threatening to the west but no rain. Weather conditions: start 80 (81% humidity, 73.8 dew point), mostly cloudy, wind SE 13 mph; finish 79 (89% humidity, 75.4 dew point), overcast, wind E 9 mph.

The bike ride back to Kingwood had a tailwind most of the time helping my legs.