As March winds down the weather warms up some but strong winds make biking hard. Today’s bike ride started at 11:11 AM, about an hour earlier than yesterday because it warmed up faster. I rode my Canyon Endurace CF SLX bike on my “Atascocita – Walden – Huffman” route. Just like the old days I went north along FM 2100 from Old Atascocita Road to FM 1960 but not on the road. The new road construction added a sidewalk beside the north bound lanes. With traffic now on the new lanes there is no room or shoulder to ride on and I rode on the new sidewalk. It needs some cleanup but it runs almost all the way to the railroad tracks. I biked 33.35 miles bumping my March total to 850.17 miles, the most miles in a month since last July when I rode 923 miles. Year to date I am at 2,061 miles, 4 miles behind 2020 on the is date. Today’s bike ride was the 6th time on this route; 4 times on my Canyon and 2 times on my Lynskey.

I finished the bike ride at 1:45 PM with the wind picking up since the start. Weather at the start and finish: start 75 (87% humidity, 70.7 dew point), cloudy, wind S 11 mph; finish 81 (70% humidity, 69.9 dew point), overcast, wind S 15 mph gusts 24 mph. I overdressed with a shorts, a long sleeve jersey and a jacket. I should’ve wore a short sleeve jersey over the long sleeve one and left the jacket at home. Getting to FM 2100 I rode into a strong headwind. I thought on the way back to Kingwood the headwind would be a tailwind and it was sometimes. Biking west over Lake Houston the wind came from my left. Each time a gust hit me my Canyon got pushed to the right requiring a strong grip on the handlebars to maintain control. After exiting the causeway and turning right the tailwind reappeared.