May Biking Starts Great
After a day off I was back biking today. I drove to New Caney and parked at Brookshire Brothers. The weather was good for riding: 82 degrees light wind and partly cloudy sky. I unloaded the Stradalli and rolled out of the parking at 12:35 riding the “New Caney – Conroe – New Caney” route. I finished at 3:34 riding 40.0 miles averaging 16.4 mph. The higher than normal average speed made for a quick ride with time moving of 2:24:57. Other than traffic lights I only made one rest stop at the Valero Corner Store at Loop 336 and FM1314.
Traffic was what I would call normal on the ride over good asphalt roads. The one section of concrete pavement was from SH 242 to Gene Campbell Road. Debris on the shoulders wasn’t too bad. The Continental Gatorskin tires are doing their job with no flats since I installed them 1,000 miles ago. It doesn’t seem that long ago that I switched to the new tires.
I stopped at the Valero around the 21.6 mile point. I rested and ate a couple of snacks and some Gatorade. I needed the fuel for the remaining 19 miles back to New Caney. While I was eating a man sitting in a white diesel pickup stuck his head out the window to ask if that was a rear view mirror on my helmet. He asked if it kept people from running into me. I replied that it didn’t stop them but I might see if they were headed my way.
On Wednesday’s ride the first love bugs appeared. They were mostly on Old Atascocita Road east of FM2100 with a few at the Huffman Chevron when I stopped there. Today there were a few more when I stopped at the Valero store. I hope they don’t get too numerous. They don’t bite but they are annoying when riding through a swarm of them. All of the rain and warming temperature is probably bringing them out.
I was looking for wildflowers today and there were some but not as many as I expected. Most of them were along SH 242.
Happy to report no dog sprints today.
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A recap of my April biking.
