A big difference in today’s weather versus last Saturday’s ride setting. Scattered clouds today while last Saturday I raced the rain clouds home. The temperature for today’s ride started at 79 degrees and ended up at 81 degrees when I finished around 1:40. The forecast calls for a 50% chance of rain today but during the ride no sign of that happening. The light WSW 8 mph breeze kept me from overheating. The wind seemed different today because only when I rode to the northwest did it feel like a headwind. All of the other directions the breeze pushed me along.

I rode one of my more frequent routes going up US59 to Porter and then jogging east to Loop 494 to continue to New Caney. I could tell when I headed northwest because the wind resistance picked up. I rode a short distance west on FM1485 to the US59 south service road. Once I was on the service road I continued to the Valley Ranch entrance and wound through Valley Ranch to FM1314 before riding south on Old Sorters Road through Briar Tree, Oakhurst to Northpark Drive. From there I took Kingwood Place south and thena side street back to US59 service road to Kingwood Drive. Taking the u-turn under US59 I went north for short distance and turned right to get to Loop 494. After that it wasn’t too far to get back into Kingwood and follow the residential streets and trails back home. At this time of day traffic was not an issue. The Garmin was faithfully recording my travels all this time.

I don’t have much ride data or map today because when I tried to download the data from my Garmin Edge 500 it would not connect to my computer. So after several tries I did a master reset which erased all of the ride data including today. Fortunately I remembered some of the ride data like the 31.4 miles but the rest went in the dark data hole. With that 31.4 miles I passed into the 6,000 miles for the year territory for the first time ever in biking career. I started riding in 1979 so there have been many years to try but when you work full time and have a long commute most of those years I thought I did great getting in the 4,000 mile range. The mileage standings: 90.42 for November and 6030.65 YTD. With almost 2 months to go I am not sure how many miles I will ride this year but each one will set a new record.

Now that daylight savings time has ended I need to start my rides no later than noon to give time to ride and then at least start writing about my trip with some daylight left. I accomplished that today starting around 11:25.