Today’s bike ride was on the “Atascocita – Walden – Huffman” route heading south and east. Rollout time was 9:53 am. Weather during the bike ride: start 86 (75% humidity), mostly cloudy, wind W 9 mph. Finish 94 (57% humidity), partly cloudy, wind W 9 mph.

Ride distance was 33.52 miles bumping the week to 67.62 miles and August to 648.75 miles. I need to bicycle 152.25 miles to reach my goal for the month. At the rate I cycling I should reach my goal with some days to spare.

Yesterday I received the warranty replacement of the Wahoo TickrFit heart rate monitor and put it into service on today’s bike ride. It worked perfectly as you can see with the red chart line below in the SportTracks ride summary. Because this replaced another TickrFit I did a calibration on the PowerPod causing it to count up to 100 before it started recording the watts around 16.2 miles into the ride. I am going to check it later to see if it paired with the new TickrFit.

Nothing out of the usual during the bike ride. I stopped at the Huffman Chevron for water and ice not spending any extra time there. From there the headwind riding west was the hardest section of the ride. Near the west end of the FM 1960 causeway over Lake Houston I stopped and took these photos. You can see the summer sky and the water of Lake Houston. I like the first photo with the contrast of the Canyon red against the gray and black of the concrete wall.

After taking the photos I got back on the Canyon and continued to Atascocita Shores Drive to make my way back to W. Lake Houston Parkway and Kingwood finishing the ride at 12:28 pm. No problem with school traffic.

Wednesday could be 100 degrees so I plan on starting biking a little earlier than today.

SportTacks Bike Ride Summary