Saturday in rural southeast Texas is refreshing. Traffic is light to none, silence is present most of the time, and the scenery is great. Today’s ride took me to Splendora and then Grangerland before heading back to Porter and home. At the Splendora Chevron station 5 or 6 bikers were pulling in as I was getting ready to ride to Grangerland on FM2090. They were from Kingwood like me. After that I did not meet any other bikers.

Weather today is supposed to hit 99 degrees with clear skies. I wanted to get riding early today to beat the heat. I left home at 7:05 AM (I can’ seem to get out the door before 7:00 AM). When I started the temperature was 77 or so and by the time I got back at 11:30 it was 90 degrees. Skies were indeed clear and the breeze was a light 9 mph from the WSW. Humidity seemed lower than recently at 55%. When I stopped at the Valero station on FM1314 sitting in the shade I actually felt very cool once the perspiration had mostly dried up.

I made my July YTD goal of at least 3,100 miles. Hopefully in August I can add 600 or so.

Today’s ride numbers:

• miles = 53.59
• riding time = 3:36:30
• average pace = 4:02 min/mile
• average speed = 14.9 mph
• max speed = 20.2 mph
• average cadence = 76.0 rpm
• max cadence = 104 rpm
• climb 237 ft., descend 304 ft., max elevation 194 ft.
• July miles 541.81
• YTD miles 3108.47

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