For some variety I chose a longer route for today’s bike ride. Because of the construction on FM 2100 I wasn’t sure how long the ride would be since I would leave out that part of the route. Grabbing my Canyon Endurace bike I started the bike ride at 12:17 PM. I chose the “May Park Community Center – Huffman” route and biked 40.08 miles, the longest ride so far in 2021. The last time I biked this route was June 16th last year.

2021 mileage moved ahead of where I was on this date in 2020 by 36 miles. Year to date road and Zwift miles total 1328.

Plenty of sunshine today and the temperature went up a couple of degrees from yesterday’s bike ride. I left leg warmers at home and wore shorts, a long sleeve thermal jersey under a windbreaker jacket. The wind picked during the ride and the long segment headed east on FM 1960 put the wind at my right front quarter. Not exactly a headwind but close enough that I pedaled hard. Overall weather conditions: start 68 (45% humidity, 45.7 dew point), partly cloudy, wind SE 9 mph; finish 70 (41% humidity, 45 dew point), mostly cloudy, wind SE 13 mph.

The wind didn’t stop me building up my average speed to 14.2 mph for a long period of time. As I returned to Kingwood on W Lake Houston Parkway I got it up to 14.3 mph until moving to the greenbelt trail at Kings Harbor. Strava awarded me two Local Legend titles for two segments in Kingwood. I had one on another segment for a few days until someone took it away.

A couple of photos from the ride. The first one shows me approaching the Liberty County line which I don’t cross very often. The second is me headed west on FM 1960 before crossing Lake Houston. The wind wasn’t too bad crossing the lake today.

• 

• 

Without the road construction on FM 2100 I would ride south on Fairlake Lane, go east on Old Atascocita Road and north on FM 2100 to FM 1960 then east.