Not as early of a start on today’s bike ride that I wanted but rode away at 8:05 AM on my Cervelo Caledonia bike. I rode the typical Saturday route, Atascocita – Huffman – Walden for 34.18 miles. That is a little above the average distance on the route in 2023. This moved the week’s total to 224.03 miles and August to 398.8 road miles, almost 50% of the way to my goal. Ten weeks in a row at 200+ miles. Year to date I am up to 6243 road and Zwift miles.

I look forward to seeing other cyclists on Saturday’s bike ride. For awhile I thought none would cross my path but the first one passed me going the other way on Atascocita Shores Drive. After that several others went by on Fairlake Lane and Old Atascocita Road. When I stopped at the Exxon station on FM 1960 for ice several cyclists rode through possibly on the way to the donut shop. One went inside the Exxon store for something as I left. Later on W. Lake Houston Parkway a group of cyclists gathered on the greenbelt trail by the YMCA but not sure why.

No change in the weather forecast as far as heat and rain. Starting early lowers the temperature a few degrees but ups the humidity to swimming level. By the time I finished at 10:57 AM it was 94 degrees but humidity was lower. I stopped on Old Atascocita Road waiting on another cyclist to pass and the wind actually felt cooling against my soaked jersey. Biking west over Lake Houston the 18 mph gusts made it difficult. Another cyclist (he is in the video) rode in front of me about 50 feet and he struggled with it too. Weather: Start 84 degrees, 87% humidity, dew point 79.7, mostly cloudy, wind S 6 mph: Finish 94 degrees, 59% humidity, dew point 77.6, partly cloudy, wind SW 10 mph gusts 18 mph. I finished before the forecast high of 102 to 104 degrees arrived.