I was apprehensive about a section of today’s bike ride on the “Kingwood – Hare Cook Road – Kingwood” because I haven’t bike this route since August 8th last year. The apprehension was about Miller Wilson Road with a number of homes along the road and whether any dogs had moved in since that last ride. It turned out to be no problem as I didn’t see one dog. I added a couple of extra streets to the route to get the mileage where I wanted ending up biking 46.51 miles, enough to push this week to 171.25 miles and the longest bike ride this month. I am up to 276 miles for the month with a goal for 800 miles.

The weather started off sunny (leaving at 10:50 am) but not long after that the sky turned overcast. The temperature started at 83 and at the finish (2:41 pm) it was 84. Wind wasn’t much of a problem from the SSE at 5 mph.

I passed three other bikers during the ride, one in Kingwood and the other two east of Lake Houston.

At 34.4 miles I rolled into the Huffman Chevron for a rest break. Normally I don’t drink anything other than water but today I decided to drink some blue PowerAde and ate some snack crackers I brought with me. It was comfortable sitting under the pump canopy with the breeze blowing slowly through drying the perspiration in my jersey and on my arms. After about 20 minutes I went back inside to fill my water bottle with ice and water to leave for the 11+ miles to the end of the bike ride. Traffic was heavy on FM 1960 as I tried to leave the station but finally a break came and I rode west on FM 1960 doing some mental calculations on what the total miles might be in case I needed to add a street or two to get the miles I wanted. It turned out I didn’t need to add any so I stayed on the usual route.

More good weather tomorrow and I plan on biking to hit 200+ miles for the week.

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