The weather behaved for today’s bike ride with some sun and light wind. I watched the Critérium du Dauphiné ITT this morning before starting my ride. The commentator mentioned the wind was 10 k/hr (8 mph) and how it was hard racing into. I wish the wind around Houston was that low speed more often. Today it was.

Biking north on my “Kingwood – SH 242 – Kingwood” route I rode 36.5 miles. This started at 10:28 AM and finished at 1:19 PM. I rode my Lynskey R300 bike. This was the 5th time to ride this route in 2021, 3 times on the Lynskey and 2 times on my Canyon Endurace. The last time was on May 14th. I stopped in Woodbridge Forest for these photos because of the flowers.

So far this week I biked 118.46 miles which should mean a 200 mile week but the weather forecast shows rain coming Friday and Saturday. I need to compensate on tomorrow’s bike ride.

Today’s weather: start 80 (76% humidity, 71.7 dew point), a few clouds, wind variable 5 mph; finish 84 (67% humidity, 72 dew point), partly cloudy, wind calm. The humidity was high enough whenever I stopped moisture ran down my arms and face. Moving it felt cooler.

I became a “local legend” according to Strava on the “Briar Willow to Lodge” segment. These come and go quickly.