The weather delivered as forecast and I was out riding this afternoon. I left home rather late at 2:00 PM with enough time to get past Kingwood High School before they flooded the streets and greenbelt. I rode the “Stroker Road – Huffman” route for a total of 38.13 miles. The last time I was this far east was the Humble Lions Club ride in February. I got back home at 5:01. This reminds me of riding when I still worked. I would rush home from work, get home around 6:00 and rush to get 20 to 22 miles in before the sun went down. I hear some people complain about daylight savings time but my riding would have been in the dark if it wasn’t for the DST. Now that I am retired it isn’t as necessary but I still like the longer daylight in the evening.

Wind seemed to come from about every direction during the ride. My legs didn’t have the extra zip to go fast when I was going into the wind. The only relief was going to the west. I was able to boost my average speed to a whopping 15.2 mph during the ride on the west bound roads. There weren’t just enough of them.

I saw two bikers on Old Atascocita Road east of FM2100 while i was going west they were going east. They weren’t together, separated by several hundred feet. They may have been suffering like I did when I was riding to the east. This particular area doesn’t have much to block the wind. There was section of road when I turned left onto Ramsey Road from Stroker Road where there was nothing to block the wind. The tallest plant was grass and I was fully exposed to the wind power.

Even though it was 82 degrees at the home weather station I wore a UC Bearcat short sleeve jersey over a long sleeve one. I think that was a good move and I was comfortable with wind having some chill in it from yesterday’s front. Before the ride my wife mended a seam on the Bearcat jersey. The colors (red and black) go well with my Stradalli bike.

UC Bearcat jersey on the left.

Weather forecast for Tuesday and Wednesday: excellent biking weather, partly cloudy and upper 70’s.

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