Suffering from bike race withdraw syndrome I decided to bike the Spring Creek Greenway today. 3 of the 4 bike races I have been watching ended yesterday. Between 4 AM and 5 AM that looked doubtful as a strong rainstorm dumped 1.66″ of rain. But by the time I started the ride at 10:11 AM the streets were pretty dry. I didn’t bike the full greenway stopping at John Pundt Park as the turn around point. This was the 4th time biking this route in 2021, all on the same bike, my Lynskey R300. The distance came in at 40.18 miles, just barely the longest of the 4 times. I wasn’t the only biker on the greenway as you can see in the video and I didn’t get all of them. There were some puddles along the way with a short section covered with water but no problems. I did wash the Lynskey after I got home at 1:44 PM.

Probably as a result of the rain the temperature topped out at 87 at the end of the ride. Humidity wasn’t too bad. Clouds kept the sun covered most of the time. Weather summary: start 78 (81% humidity, 72 dew point), mostly cloudy, wind W 4 mph; finish 87 (66% humidity, 74 dew point), mostly cloudy, wind variable 4 mph.

Some photos from the ride.

On the way back to Kingwood I rode on sections of the San Jacinto Bayou Greenway. On Forest Cove Drive construction equipment stood at a new bridge to be installed beside the road. Work is happening on that greenway which will eventually go to US59/I-69 through new Edgewater Park.