April biking drew to a close with today’s ride on the “Kingwood – East River Dr – Kingwood” route. The last time I biked this route was in 2017 but I am not sure why I waited so long to do it again. The bike ride covered 46.49 miles putting April’s total at 957.28 miles. If I rode 3/4 of mile farther I would have surpassed last July’s 958.03 miles, the highest month since then. So far I biked 118.0 miles for the week. I still can reach 200+ miles this week if I average 28 miles each day. I didn’t bike yesterday which would have helped get me closer to 200+ for the week.

I saw more people powerwashing today. Spring thing I guess.

I used a CamelBak Classic on today’s bike ride leaving the water bottle at home. It takes getting used to the CamelBak on my back and the straps but having more cold water was good.

With the weather starting to warm up I thought the CamelBak to carry water would replace stopping at places to refill a water bottle. A safety precaution with COVID-19.

After yesterday’s rain and front passing through today’s weather was great if a little cooler than what I prefer. To offset the chill I wore shorts, a long sleeve jersey, and a short sleeve jersey. A brilliant blue sky meant lots of sunshine. Weather during the bike ride: start 77 (40% humidity, 51.0 dew point), fair, wind calm. Finish 81 (37% humidity, 52.7 dew point), fair, wind W 6 mph. The bike ride started at 11:05 AM and I finished at 2:48 PM.

As I rode to Splendora lots of yellow wildflowers lined the road as you will see in the video.

North of E. River Drive road construction on US59/I-69 makes biking difficult near Fostoria Road to the East Fork of the San Jacinto River. Road construction is limiting my route choices with SH 242 west of US59 also expanding from 2 lanes to 4 lanes blocking the shoulder. I may drive beyond the work areas and then ride.

April biking closes out on a high note with the miles, great weather, lots of wildflowers, and biking 28 or 30 days. A summary of the month’s activities.

Of the 28 biking days, 1 day was using Zwift and the others were road miles. My goal for May is a modest 660 miles, all on the road. The reason for a low number compared to April is in the past my wife and I went on trips in May. Several times we went on cruises, I biked the Florida Keys in 2017 in May, and sometimes the weather slowed me down with rain. Since my wife passed away last year I don’t plan on any trips and COVID-19 stopped cruises.