Starting the bike ride at 1:42 PM it was hot. To lessen the heat I rode the Kingwood Trails with the shade from the many trees. As I prepared to ride I thought of what trails to ride and came up with today’s combination. The feature on the trails: wooden bridges or least bridges with wooden floors. I rode my Lynskey R300 across a number of bridges but not all of them. There are more on trails I didn’t bike today. A previous ride on the trails featured various village pools. I wasn’t sure how long the ride would be but I finished at 3:31 PM after biking 19.31 miles. Wrapping up the week my total came in at 234.86 miles. With the 1st day in August I kicked off a new goal of 800 miles and now only need 781 more miles. I thought with the shorter ride 2021 YTD would trail 2020 YTD by more miles but now 2021 leads by 1 mile at 5,807.

The Lynskey R300 maintenance installed the new Robert Axle Project thru axles. No repeat route during the week. The trip to Galveston started the week’s bike rides. This marks 10 weeks in a row at 200+ miles.

There was one bridge I tried to find in Trailwood Village that crosses the Ben’s Branch drainage ditch. The bridge is rather long with a steel frame and wood deck. I know the west side location but not the east side where I rode.

Bike rides on the trails are not fast. I ride slowly because I never know what is around the next curve or group of trees. Today on one section a girl on a Razor type scooter came around a corner and I needed to move to give her room.

Weather conditions: start 92 (56% humidity, 73.9 dew point), mostly cloudy, wind W 6 mph; finish 92 (56% humidity, 73.7 dew point), mostly cloudy, wind W 7 mph. At one point when I came off the trails in Kings Forest Village the street was damp from a brief shower. I felt a couple of drops earlier in Trailwood Village.