The bike ride began with good prospects after waiting until 11:11 AM to start. I rode my Canyon Endurace bike on my usual Saturday route, “Atascocita – Huffman – Walden” but that would change when I rode over Lake Houston. The weather warmed up from yesterday allowing me to ditch the leg warmers, windbreaker jacket, and full finger gloves. In place I wore shorts, a long sleeve thermal jersey (it was 69 degrees) with a short sleeve Texbiker.net jersey on top.

I was making good time when I heard a loud pop from my rear tire on the Lake Houston Causeway. At first I thought it was a rock that shot out as I rode over it but a few seconds later the rear tire went flat. I checked my position and I was about halfway across so I decided to walk to the east shore to find a quiet place to fix the flat. Watch the video for more about the flat. The good news from the flat, no one else will run over that nail. The bad news, I lost an hour and I needed to get back home by 2:30 to watch the Cincinnati vs SMU football game. A conspiracy to keep from watching? I finished the ride at 2:31 PM, only missing the first Cincinnati touchdown by the time I got inside.

Back on the road I changed the route to “Atascocita – FM2100 – Walden” because of the lost time fixing the flat and a sign saying there was road work at FM 2100 at FM 1960. Probably at the railroad tracks. I wanted to ride at least 32 miles to reach 100 miles for the week but settled for 30.97 miles. If the distance I walked on the causeway had been riding I would have done it. So far I bike 99.84 miles this week. Not too bad considering only 3 days of riding. Maybe I can ride tomorrow and get the week over 100 miles.

Later I will see if I can salvage the tube from the flat. Thank goodness my spare tube was good this time.