The last time I biked the Kingwood Greenbelt trails November 26th, 2017. I used to ride the trails frequently when I owned a mountain bike but since I sold it I only use the trails to get around traffic for road biking. That last ride was on my Blue Norcross AL bike which now sits on my Wahoo Snap smart trainer for Zwift rides. Today I rode my Lynskey R300 bike starting at 1:50 PM in the heat of the day. A good time to ride the trails with lots of shade. I finished at 3:16 PM with the temperature down a few degrees and some thunder in the distance. I rode at what the YouTube channel Path Less Pedaled calls “Party Pace”. My 10.9 mph average speed confirmed the “Party Pace” description.

Because of the long time since my last greenbelt bike ride I thought there might be a few surprises but I got a big one while riding south on Woodland Hills Drive on the way to River Grove Park. You can see what I found in the video starting at the 29 minute mark. I will check this out on return rides from the Spring Creek Greenway.

I wanted to bike at least 10 miles and actually rode 15.23 miles. This pushed my week total to 233.89 miles. That is the most in a week since the week of 5/31/2021. While the week’s total did that the gap between 2021 YTD miles and 2020 YTD widened to 143 miles.

Weather conditions: start 91 ( 60% humidity, 75 dew point), mostly cloudy, wind variable 4 mph; finish 86 (71% humidity, 75.6 dew point), mostly cloudy, wind SE 20 mph. I didn’t notice the wind picking up with all of the trees. I did notice the humidity change though.

Relive.cc condensed my bike ride into 38 seconds.

Even with the “Party Pace” speed Strava showed a 3rd place medal on the on Grove Park Loop (2:20) segment. (click the Strava image to go to my activity)