Today’s ride was a great one to wrap up the week. I decided to not ride to Huffman because there was a car show in Kingwood Town Center and the traffic and street closures make it difficult. The route I did ride was the “Oakhurst – Cumberland – Valley Ranch” one. This route is inside the Grand Parkway construction road cutoffs on FM1314 west and Community Drive on US59 north. I had an opportunity to check on the FM1314 overpass and it is still in need of the beams over FM1314.

The weather was good: 87 degrees, partly cloudy to mostly cloudy sky and a 12 mph SSE wind. The wind was not so much of a problem today. Over the 31.53 mile route I averaged 15.4 mph with 15.6 mph the maximum average speed. No dogs again today. I don’t miss them.

Early in the ride when I was going through South Woodland Hills in Kingwood I caught up with another bicyclist. I was wearing my Texbiker.net jersey and he said he like my blog and reads it regularly. Sadly I did not ask him his name before our routes separated. Later just before I got home there was another biker in front of me on a short section of the green belt trail and it looked like the same guy but I didn’t get close enough to ask.

Since I aired up the tires it seems like I can hold a higher speed and my average speeds are higher too. Today’s route does have some long sections where I can ride without stops. This helps a lot too. Strava said I had the 3rd fastest time on the Kingwood PL Dr. (1:58) segment.

Weekend traffic includes many people towing their toys: boats, 4-wheelers and RV’s. I don’t remember seeing any bikes though. Traffic on the ride was not too bad with the wide shoulders on the busiest roads giving me room to ride.

Weather for Monday looks great for biking: 84 degrees and clear. Tuesday not so good: rain.

Recap:

• 196.75 miles this week
• 111.09 miles so far in May (compared to 266 miles May 2014)
• 1780 miles year to date

Weather in Porter during the ride

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