Flexibility for today’s bike ride. I planned on riding stage 3 of the Tour de Zwift but an appointment changed and the weather looked good before a cool front arrived later this afternoon. I’ll ride stage 3 tomorrow. Thinking of different routes not going to far from Kingwood I decided to ride to Jesse Jones Park on the Spring Creek Greenway. Before the ride I didn’t check to see when I rode there last but it had been several months not counting the times I rode through the park to other points on the greenway. To add some distance when I rode into Woodridge Forest I rode west on Adams Street and back into Woodridge Forest. I’ve been trying to re-capture the Strava local legend on Adams Street but I’ve riding the wrong direction. I rode east to west instead of west to to east. So I created a new segment, “Adams St. Westbound”. That answered a question about Strava segments, does direction matter? It does.

Strava didn’t find any matching rides because of Adams Street but SportTracks found these rides with the route name I use, Spring Creek Greenway to Jesse Jones Park.

The greenway was not busy today. I saw one cyclist on the way back to the US59 trailhead and a few walkers. Maybe the weather forecast kept people away. Weather conditions: start, 76, humidity 80%, dew point 69, overcast, wind S 13 mph; finish 77, humidity 76%, dew point 69, overcast, wind S 12 mph gusts 24 mph. I wore shorts, a short sleeve jersey under a wind jacket.

Getting to the greenway a strong headwind kept my effort hard. Once I got to the parking lot at Jesse Jones and started riding back to Kingwood the wind became a side wind and tailwind. Pedaling got easier and I upped my speed. Today’s ride had the second fastest average speed compared to my previous rides above. The AXS.SRAM.com ride report gives some details about my effort. I used the 35×15 gears most changing to the 35×13 on the way back after coming over the Bevill Jerrell Bridge.

Strava posted 3 medals on segments.