Began today’s bike ride at 9:39 AM. With no bike races to watch I am getting and earlier start. The bike today was my Canyon Endurace CF SLX. Heading north I rode my “Kingwood – SH 242 – Kingwood” route covering 37.65 miles. This was the 6th time on this route in 2021 evenly spread across both of my road bikes. The week is up 180.97 miles. A 200 mile week looks possible with tomorrow’s bike ride. I reduced the difference YTD between 2021 and 2020 to 140 miles, down 4 from yesterday. Here is a summary of the 6 rides on this route. Today was the longest in miles.

Where I made the u-turn at SH 242 was the scene of a bicyclist and vehicle collision earlier this week. It happened late at night while I rode through in bright sunlight today. Construction work closes some lanes with barriers. During the day traffic gives me room but at night visibility can be a problem. I am not sure of the bicyclist’s condition or if he was killed.

When I checked the weather as I got out of bed it showed the temperature at 69, cool for a June morning with lots of sun and no clouds. I expected it would heat up a lot by the time I started riding but it was 83 and by the time I finished at 12:36 PM it was only 87. Riding in the shade in felt quite comfortable. Weather details: start 83 (60% humidity, 67.9 dew point), a few clouds, wind NE 7 mph; finish 87 (50% humidity, 66.4 dew point), fair, wind E 13 mph. The forecast calls for mid 90’s later.

Heading back south after the u-turn at SH 242 the wind helped me boost my average speed to 14.2 mph. As log as I rode south the wind helped but going to the east a headwind tried to make riding hard and generally succeeded.