The Tour is over and I can start bike rides earlier but today I was a little slow getting the bike ride underway. Wheels down and rolling on my Canyon Endurace at 10:09 AM. I chose a route I haven’t done but two times prior to today, “Kingwood – Splendora – Kingwood”. Now that number is up to 3. As I rode I kept looking at the clouds. You can see many of them in the video.

One reason for the cloud watching was the week’s weather forecast from this morning; a rainy week starting tonight. I figured a long ride might be needed to make up for a missed bike ride or two if that rain comes when I normally ride. Today’s ride came in at 42.25 miles, in line with the other rides on this route in 2021. Since it is the first day of the week no clear direction if this week will be a 200 mile one. The bike ride did make a dent in the gap between 2021 YTD miles versus 2020 lowering the difference to 101 miles from 143 after yesterday’s ride. YTD I am at 5,378 miles. I’m getting closer to my 800 mile goal for July with 617.63 miles.

Today’s weather conditions while biking: start 86 (75% humidity, 77.1 dew point), mostly cloudy, wind W 7 mph; finish 91 (61% humidity, 75.3 dew point), mostly cloudy, wind W 7 mph. The wind helped me ride to Splendora and I expected a headwind on the way back to Kingwood but it wasn’t that bad unless I headed directly into it. I stopped for a rest break on the way back at Valley Ranch Parkway under TX 99, the Grand Parkway. The light breeze in the shade felt good while I ate a cereal bar. By the time I finished at 1:42 PM I drank most of the water in my CamelBak. This was one of the hotter rides that started in the morning.