The bike ride began at 10:26 AM after stage 12 of the Giro d’Italia ended. I rode my Canyon Endurace Cf 7 bike. The route was a familiar one, Atascocita – Walden – Huffman, but I added the Atascocita Hike and Bike Trail in place of riding through Kings River. Little did I know what waited for me under FM1960 on my second ride on the Hike and Bike Trail. Up to that point the bike ride went as planned. As I rode behind the Kroger store the trail dipped down under FM1960. Approaching the bottom of the dip a sea of mud crossed the concrete trail. I paused to ascertain the situation. There seemed to be a shallow way through the mud and I rode towards it. About halfway the mud stopped me and I put my right foot down in the mud. I didn’t look at the time but I think the mud hung to my tires and clogged up the frame. I stayed on the bike pushing through the mud to a dry spot. Pounding my right shoe on the concrete to get rid of the mud didn’t help much and the right shoe wouldn’t clip into the pedal forcing me to walk up from the trail under FM1960. I paused to tap my shoe more and then rode onto spraying mud clods ahead and behind. I think I got my shoe to clip in by the time I reached Farmingham Road. When I got to the Chevron station at FM1960 and Atascocita Shores Drive I used a discarded plastic cup to scrape the remaining clumps of mud from the tires before walking to the station and using the windshield scrubber to clean the tires more and the shoe cleat and pedal. From there the ride returned to normal but with urgency to beat the rain back home which I did at 1:37 PM. Back home the Canyon got a thorough wash and the shoe too.