Oh no, not again! My plan to start before 11 AM and ride my Atascocita – Balmoral – W Lake Houston Pkwy – Walden route got interrupted by a flat rear tire on my Canyon Endurace CF 7 bike. As I walked by and squeezed the rear tire it was flat. At least the flat happened at home and not on the road like yesterday. Inspecting the tire I found a tiny piece of wire sticking out opposite the valve. Easier than yesterday’s flat on my Cervelo Caledonia. Pulling the TPU out of the rear tire finding the hole wasn’t easy. It took pumping the tube up and passing the tube near my lips to feel a very small stream of air coming out. I marked the spot with a pen after using sandpaper on the area and placed an adhesive patch over it. With the tube back in the tire I got ready to ride giving the patch time to leak if I missed the hole. Ready to roll about 15 minutes later the tire was rock solid.

Confident the patch would hold i rode away at 11:17 AM heading south. The weather changed from yesterday’s haze and humidity when a front moved through shifting the wind to the NNE. This helped biking south but the return trip required hard pedaling to finish at 2:24 PM. I stopped at the Blue Lagoon in Balmoral for these photos.

I rode 38.19 miles, the most of all the previous 5 previous times since the railroad overpass opened last April. I am now ahead of the 25 miles per day pace to reach May’s goal by 7.7 miles (257.7 versus 250 miles). The week crossed 200 miles with 203.58. Two Strava top results: PR on Timber Forest Crosses 1960 (6:53) and PR on Mont Chemin de Fer (2:03).