Every once in a while a bike ride just feels smooth and great. Today’s bike ride on the Spring Creek Greenway to John Pundt Park and back was one of those. It all began at 8:57 AM when I pedaled away from my driveway on my Lynskey Helix bike. The weather was warm but not oppressive yet. A 3 mph wind from the north was strong enough to provide some cooling but not to strong to make pedaling hard. Maybe one of the contributing factors was the different gearing on the Lynskey from my other bike, a Cervelo Caledonia. Once I was on the greenway the shade provided some cooling and it didn’t feel too hot. The gears helped the short climbs go easily compared to other rides. Usually my average speed is below 13 mph but today it was 13.4 mph most of the ride.

I wasn’t sure if there would be many other cyclists and riding to Jesse Jones Park from US59 I only passed one cyclist but after that the number increased. The video only shows a fraction of the cyclists I saw. I also saw two people on roller blades. I asked the second one at the US59 trail head how far she was going and she said 5 or 6 miles which would been to Jesse Jones Park. I saw 2 people riding 3 wheel recumbent bikes as well. At John Pundt Park 2 ladies were walking by where I was sitting for a short rest. One of them had a miniature baseball bat. I asked if she was going to hit some baseballs and she said no, it was in case something making noise off the greenway chased her. The second lady said she didn’t need one because she would run faster than the other lady.

This was the 5th time to ride the greenway to John Pundt Park this year. I wanted to ride at least 40 miles and I beat that by biking 42.22 miles. That was the farthest ride of the 5. This puts the week’s total at 114.02 miles and June at 731.32 miles. I need 69 miles to reach my goal for June. I rode a portion of the San Jacinto Bayou Greenway but not to Woodland Hills Drive.

Some photos along the greenway.

Weather conditions: start 85 (humidity 73%, dew point 76), mostly clear, wind N 3 mph; finish 88 (humidity 60%, dew point 73), partly cloudy, wind N 0 mph. My CamelBak kept my water cold until I finished at 12:28 PM. No ice cubes left when I emptied it out so the timing was good. At the rest stop on the picnic bench in John Pundt Park the light breeze felt cooling as I sat in the shade. I had to push myself to get back on the bike.

From the AXS.SRAM.com ride report I saw 11 RD shifts while riding 2:35:19 (35.1 miles) using the 33×13 gears. Total ride moving time was 3:12:04.

With 4 previous rides I didn’t expect any top results in Strava but I recorded 5: PR on Mazie’s Run (1:49), 2nd fastest time on Sprint Under The Trees (E.B.) (53s), 2nd fastest time on Carter Park to Jesse H Jones Park (13:42), 3rd fastest time on Evy’s Run (3:50), and Smooth Sailing South. I’m not close to Tom Riddle for the local legend, he has most of these with 57 rides in the last 90 days to my 5.

This link shows the interactive ride on Google Earth created by Relive.cc.