My earliest start for a bike ride in July, maybe even June. Out the door and rolling on my Canyon Endurace bike at 7:47 AM. I was thinking other bikers probably started earlier than that and meeting on FM 1960 and east. I biked my usual Saturday route, “Atascocita – FM 2100 – Walden”. This was the 16th on the route so far in 2021. If you add in the same route with different order of “Atascocita – Walden – FM 2100” the count is 12 more times. Two mileage events came with the 32.37 miles I biked today: a 215.55 mile week and 1027.67 mile July. One day left in the week so it that could go higher. I only missed biking one day which helped getting those miles in July. I searched my online bike logs and can’t find another month over 1,000 miles. That’s a lot of biking for an old retired man. 10 consecutive weeks of 200+ miles.

Average miles per ride: 34.25. Longest bike ride: 48.3 miles on July 12th, Spring Creek Greenway. Average riding time per ride: 2 hours 34 minutes.

Early in the ride I encountered two bikers (see the video) and chatted with them for a couple of minutes. Our rides split in Woodridge Forest. I met another biker as I rode beside Kingwood Drive but he came too quickly to get in the video. The other bikers are in the video. I saw more this week than last week.

Humidity was high with the early start. The dew point was just below the temperature. This meant lots of sweating and when I finished at 10:11 AM my shorts and jersey were soaked. My CamelBak cold water tasted great as the temperature rose during the bike ride. Weather conditions: start 77 (99% humidity, 76.5 dew point), mostly cloudy, wind calm; finish 87 (72% humidity, 77 dew point), partly cloudy, wind calm. The wind didn’t pose much of an issue. Maybe a stronger breeze would’ve helped cool me.

When I reached FM 2100 men worked on fresh concrete flanking Old Atascocita Road. At some point traffic on Old Atascocita Road will need to move right or left for concrete to be poured. This is encouraging progress on FM 2100 opening for biking.