It’s Memorial Day. Time to remember those who gave their lives for our country. Before today’s bike ride I took these photos for remembering them.

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I thought it would be a good day to bike on the Spring Creek Greenway. I wasn’t the only person to have that thought. As you see in the video many bikers, walkers and joggers were out. Weather cooperated with a low dew point and some sun. I began at 9:58 AM riding my Canyon Endurace CF SLX bike and after riding 48.65 miles I finished at 1:58 PM.

The video shows my introduction of the ride and one clip before starting to approach the bridge over the San Jacinto River. Then the video shows the ride to the end at I-45. I thought I recorded the return from John Pundt Park to I-69/US59 but I didn’t start the Drift Ghost camera properly.

This wrapped up May bike rides with a total of 864.7 miles. This is the second highest total in 2021 after April’s 915.65 miles. Maybe if the rain allowed I could’ve beat that. I did not bike on 6 days and got caught in the rain two times. One of those rain rides a nice lady gave me a ride home since my wife can longer help me. Below is a summary of the month’s bike rides. A good start to ride 200 miles this week. Today was the longest bike ride in May.

I stopped at John Pundt Park on the bike ride back to the I-69/US59 trailhead to eat a granola bar. After finishing the bar I took this photo. For some reason Strava is slow to update the total miles biked on my Canyon Endurace. The correct number is 22,229 miles.

Several places on the greenway showed signs of high water but were dry except for a short section leaving Pundt Park to Carter Park. Water covered the asphalt about 2 inches deep for about 20 feet.

Weather conditions: start 80 (74% humidity, 70.7 dew point), mostly cloudy, wind E 7 mph; finish 83 (68% humidity, 71.6 dew point), mostly cloudy, wind SE 13 mph. The wind wasn’t bad on the greenway thanks to all of the trees. With the shade it didn’t feel that hot. Humidity and dew point helped with the heat. It felt like a good day for biking.

Strava recorded a bunch of personal medals: 2 gold, 5 silver, and 2 bronze. I never think of these until they pop up after the ride.