Today I started the bike ride at 8:36 AM beating yesterday’s start time by 25 minutes and I finished at 11:43 AM an hour and 12 minutes earlier than yesterday. I chose my “Huffman – Liberty County Line” route to bike at least 40 miles still trying to make up for not riding on Monday. Today’s bike ride ended with 40.82 miles about average for the 5 times I rode the route this year. I rode my Cervelo Caledonia today. I looked in SportTracks to find the last time I biked 40+ miles 3 days in a row. That was May 5th, 6th, and 7th 2020. Those were on different routes than the current three day run. My now totals 128.02 miles leaving 72 miles and 3 biking days to get to 200+ miles. Missing the one day makes it hard to get to 200 miles in a week.

Since my last bike ride on this route road construction narrowed FM 2100 from Huffman – Eastgate Road to Smith Road. I need to remember that before riding it again. Traffic was forgiving and a middle turn lane was there for part of the distance giving traffic space to pass me. No change in the construction on FM 1960 at Atascocita Shores Drive.

I wasn’t the only cyclist on the route today. I saw three others along FM 1960.

Starting early helped me avoid the hottest time of the day. The wind was light but a few places a headwind appeared ramping up my effort. Weather conditions: start 82 (humidity 87%, dew point 77), mostly cloudy, wind N 0 mph; finish 91 (humidity 56%, dew point 73), partly cloudy, wind NW 4 mph.

AXS.SRAM.com ride report puts the moving time at 3:04:05 with a total time of 3:06:41. I stopped for a few minutes at the Exxon station on FM 1960 at E. Lake Houston Parkway. 23 RD shifts with the most time spent in the 35×13 gears for 2:04:40 or 29.1 miles.