I’m still in catch up mode. Back to back 45 mile bike rides gets me closer to my May goal. Today I rode the Kingwood – Stroker Road – Kingwood route for 44.9 miles (I rounded up to 45 miles). An earlier start at 10:36 AM got me back home at 2:06 PM thanks to stage 4 of the Giro d’Italia finishing earlier than yesterday. I biked through some areas that flooded on Saturday cutting that bike ride short. Aboard my Canyon Endurace CF 7 bike I crossed Lake Houston which was higher than normal but not flood level though the Lake Houston Brewery restaurant on the east shore looked like water entered the building. Lots of cloud cover today making me think it wasn’t as hot as it really was. I wore black and at the end of the ride salt stains adorned my kit. The hardest part of the ride was going south on Ramsey Road into what felt like a strong headwind. I shifted to the 35×15 gears when my legs had trouble turning the cranks with the 35×13 gears. Riding south on W. Lake Houston Parkway over the San Jacinto river there was a group of City of Houston Public Works vehicles on the northbound side. They may have been looking for damage from the high water. during Hurricane Harvey the bridge suffered some damage to the pads the beams rest on.

Ride history on the route.

Weather: Start 81 degrees, humidity 83%, dew point 75.4, 80% cloud cover, wind S 5 mph gusts 9 mph; Finish 86 degrees, humidity 75%, dew point 77.2, 47% cloud cover, wind S 8 mph gusts 10 mph.