With a time constraint today I rolled out on today’s bike ride at 8:55 AM. I chose a shorter route to fit the time heading south and east to E. Lake Houston Parkway on FM 1960. I call this my “Atascocita – Walden – E. Lake Houston Parkway” route. I rode my Canyon Endurace bike. Finishing at 11:26 AM I biked 28.93 miles, the shortest ride so far this week. Saturday will make up for the short ride. After 4 bike rides this week the total is 156.52 miles. This was the 5th time biking today’s route. Today’s mileage fits the average for those rides. August now totals 851.62 miles surpassing my 800 mile goal.

Lots of blue sky for the bike ride. Wind was light but a headwind riding east over Lake Houston tested my legs. The return over Lake Houston had a light tailwind but I gladly took it. Overall weather conditions: start 84 (76% humidity, 75.4 dew point), partly cloudy, wind N 6 mph; finish 90 (61% humidity, 75.2 dew point), partly cloudy, wind NE 8 mph.

Early in the bike ride I encountered lots of traffic at Kingwood Park High School. This was the first time I ran into this since school started a couple of weeks ago. Not sure why today was different.

For some reason the GoPro MicroSD card recorded the video clips but I couldn’t access them. I used Recuva to get the files but the first clip was messed up. I wanted to try editing the video on my Acer Spin 713 Chromebook but reverted to my Windows 10 computer.

When I rode through Walden I stopped and talked with a church member working in his garage. Later on Pine Place Drive another biker passed me going the opposite direction. We exchanged hellos.