Continued the week’s bike rides south and east on the Atascocita – Walden – Stroker Road route. This is a slightly longer version of the Atascocita – Walden – Indian Shores Road route. It’s close enough for Strava to consider the routes as matches. Rolled out at 12:15 PM on my Cervelo Caledonia bike and finished at 3:20 PM. Getting to Stroker Road mostly was with the wind and the ride back was into the wind. The hardest wind sections: north on FM2100, west on FM1960, crossing Lake Houston riding west, and north on W. Lake Houston Parkway over the river. At the start the wind was a modest 10 mph but sometime during the ride it increased to 13 mph with 24 mph gusts from the NW. My legs got a workout. Nice to see some sun.

Weather: Start 71 degrees, humidity 75%, dew point 62.5, overcast, wind NW 10 mph; Finish 75 degrees, humidity 59%, dew point 60.0, a few clouds, wind NW 13 mph gusts 24 mph.

Today’s 40.18 miles got me within 124 miles of my 680 mile goal for March.

On the way back I stopped on Atascocita Shores Drive and took these photos.