I beat last Saturday’s start time by 1 minute with my Canyon Endurace’s wheels rolling at 7:57 AM. I rode my usual Saturday route going south and east to FM 2100 and back finishing at 10:20 AM. This week I rode a couple of miles longer thanks to changing the streets at the beginning through Woodridge Forest. I needed 13 miles to hit 200 for the week and biking 32.21 miles today put the week at 219.29 miles. Also I am within 6 miles of reaching my 800 mile goal for July at 794.67 miles. This marked the 15th time biking this route in 2021. Probably one of my most frequently used routes.

I haven’t decided if I will bike tomorrow (Sunday). So far I biked 23 out of 24 days in July.

Today’s bike ride wasn’t the longest using this route name but was above the average. As you can see from the list all of the rides have been on my Canyon Endurace bike.

Weather conditions: start 77 (99% humidity, 76.7 dew point), a few clouds, wind SW 5 mph; finish 88 (69% humidity, 76.5 dew point), a few clouds, wind S 8 mph. The humidity and dew point at the start made for a muggy ride. It felt cool as long as I moved but stopping produced a flow of sweat falling to the pavement. The cold water in my CamelBak helped.

I’m glad I didn’t go north on FM 2100 because I would’ve missed several other bikers.

The reason I start early on Saturday is to see other bikers. I got some of them on the video today but I saw several on the way back to Kingwood after I turned the Drift Ghost XL camera off. The number of bikers is not as many as some other times. Another reason is to finish the ride before the hottest time of the day. I think my video editing improved a little this week as I aligned the Bolt computer screenshot closer to the Drift camera timeline.

Average speed got up to 14.3 mph thanks to a light breeze and good legs. With all of the starts and stops getting out of Kingwood I have to overcome the low average speed there but today I kept a strong pace in Kingwood so I didn’t have to overcome such a big difference to get the average speed above 14 mph. Strava said today’s bike ride was consistent with my usual efforts.

From Strava I learned, “You just claimed the title of Local Legend on Kings View U. Your 37 efforts mean that you’ve completed the most efforts on this segment over the past 90 days.” As the number says I ride this segment several times a week when I go south out of Kingwood. It avoids traffic on W. Lake Houston Parkway.

(Click on the image below to go to the Strava page.) Link to the SportTracks activity page.