A big change in the weather earlier this morning when it rained to 1:41 PM when I started today’s bike ride. We are getting into the upper 80’s, sunny, but still windy. I rode the Canyon Endurace CF SLX bike on what I call the “Forest Cove – Oakhurst – Valley Ranch” route. It wasn’t the exact same route I biked the last time on March 15th. I forgot the beginning part of the route and altered it so that as I returned to Kingwood I repeated the streets from the beginning. I try not to do that. This made the ride a few miles shorter coming in at 26.69 miles versus 30.4. This still was enough to put me over the 200 mile mark for the week with 214.63 miles. I increased my shortfall of YTD miles from 2020 to 80 miles at 3,034 for 2021. A summary of the week’s bike rides.

Due to rain on Friday I biked 6 days out of 7. The average distance was 35.77 miles which made up for the missing day. Monday I rode a route I haven’t done in several years. I plan on biking another route this week that I haven’t done in several years.

With the after church start time the weather was almost perfect except for the strong wind. Weather conditions: tart 85 (53% humidity, 65.6 dew point), a few clouds, wind SW 12 mph; finish 88 (48% humidity, 5.6 dew point), a few clouds, wind W 12 mph gusts 21 mph. I did have a tailwind at times but the headwind was stiff.

In Valley Ranch I took these photos. The bright flowers caught my eye.