When I started today’s bike ride and the last ride of June I didn’t realize it would be on a new route. I thought I must’ve rode this before but after the ride I checked my SportTracks activity history and couldn’t find one. What made this route different? Many of the roads are familiar ones I ride often but the main difference is how I return to Kingwood. On other routes that include Cumberland I ride through Kings Manor into Kingwood. Today I didn’t turn left at Kellington Drive from Kingwood Place Drive. I stayed on Kingwood Place Drive passing West Fork High School to Sorters Road. Sorters Road to the US59 overpass, a short section of Loop 494 and I was on Hamblen Road. Hamblen Road over the railroad tracks and about 1/2 a mile took me to the San Jacinto Bayou Greenway entrance. I stayed on the greenway and bike route sections to Woodland Hills Drive, back into Kingwood. The average distance for the Community Drive – Cumberland – Oakhurst route (the route that is the core of the new one) is about 34.5 miles. The new route, Community Drive – Cumberland – Forest Cove, was 37.44 miles. This was a nice ride to finish June’s bike rides and I plan on biking it again.

An earlier start at 8:33 AM came because stage 1 of the Giro d’Italia Donne was canceled due to flooding and I was going watch it while I ate breakfast. Not a problem for me to start a few minutes earlier. I rode my Canyon Endurace CF 7 bike. I solved the speed sensor problem by moving the speed sensor from the Blue Norcross AL bike I use for Zwift to the Canyon. The Blue doesn’t need a speed sensor since Zwift and the Wahoo Kickr Core smart trainer do that.

The heat is letting up a tiny bit today with the forecast below 100 but the heat index will still be above that. I finished the ride at 11:34 AM before the hottest part of the day. Weather: Start 85 degrees, 79% humidity, dew point 77.4, a few clouds, wind SW 4 mph; Finish 92 degrees, 60% degrees, dew point 76.4, partly cloudy, wind S 7 mph. While the wind was light my legs had difficulty at times biking into the headwind. I used the 35×13 gears for 1:56:20 (27.6 miles) according to the AXS.SRAM.com ride report. I made a few more rear derailleur shifts, 37, than other recent bike rides.

June biking got off to a slow start when I missed the first 2 days but after that I rode every day for a total of 967.6 miles, exceeding my 800 mile goal. The average ride was 34.56 miles. The longest ride was 45.9 miles on June 8th in Galveston. The shortest was June 25th biking 13.3 mils in Kingwood. I received my Canyon Endurace bike June 4th and took it on the first ride June 12th. I rode it 12 times during the month. The Cervelo Caledonia was in the shop for several days but I did ride it 8 times. The Lynskey Helix was on the road 8 times.