As I sit at home after today’s ride on the “FM1960 to FM686 – Back” route I can hear thunder from the direction I rode. Looking at the weather radar rain covers a substantial part of the route from Huffman to home. Fortunately I missed that but as humid as it was (69% to 77%) I was covered in sweat as probably as wet as if I was riding in the rain. The major difference is the dirt and grime from the rain. I washed the bike when I got home because of the accumulated dirt from sweat and water bottle condensation from the ice cold water moving through the hot (90 degree) humid air.

At the turn around point at FM686 and FM1960 I stopped at the Dayton Food & Fuel store to wipe some of the sweat off and wrung out my gloves. It didn’t do much good though. After a few miles headed back to Huffman the gloves were as wet as before and my headband was dripping sweat. With the Tropical Storm Bill weather it will take a few days to evaporate the water standing around and get the humidity below 50%. The weather in Huffman during the rest break:

Today’s ride was a longer one at 42.46 miles. I added a couple of streets to be sure I was over 40 miles. June miles are 586.85. I am less than 400 to reach the 968 mile goal.

Thanks to a calm wind and flat long stretches of FM1960 I averaged 15.8 mph for most of the ride after the 17 mile point until 40.2 miles. It dropped to 15.6 mph overall during the last 2 miles home. I waited several minutes to get across Kingwood Drive traffic and rode slowly through the winding streets.

I left home at 10:31 and finished at 2:10. I took a longer than usual break at the Huffman Chevron trying to dry off some.

Home weather station at the end of the ride

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