With some extra effort I got today’s bike ride started at 9:52 AM. I chose the “Atascocita South – Walden – Huffman” route and added a couple of miles to it to help make up for not biking Monday (yesterday). It rained Monday until mid afternoon when it was too late to ride. Today’s bike ride covered 36.04 miles getting me to 714.22 miles for June, 86 miles short of my 800 mile goal. I will need to ride longer rides this week if I am going to hit 200+ miles because of not biking yesterday. Today was the 6th time biking today’s route in 2020 and the one with the most miles; usually this route is 34+ miles.

Weather was a concern which motivated me to start when I did. Checking the weather radar I saw a big blob of rain west of Houston but it seemed to be going south rather than east. Looking at part of my Father’s Day gift, a global barometer, the barometric pressure increased while I ate breakfast indicating rain was not likely. This encouraged me to add the extra miles to the route. This is my weather gift for Father’s Day. (barometer on the right)

Weather at the start and 12:36 PM finish: start 82 (87% humidity, 78.1 dew point), mostly cloudy, wind calm. Finish 89 (71% humidity, 78.4 dew point), overcast, wind SW 10 mph. The humidity made it feel much warmer than the temperature indicated. Sweating came quickly and easily. Tonight the threat of rain may bring spotty flooding which might impact tomorrow’s biking.

With the day off my legs felt good today and Strava told me today’s bike ride was harder than my usual effort. Pedaling the Canyon Endurace bike felt good. The hardest part of the ride was crossing Lake Houston going west into the SW wind.