I learned to start earlier from yesterday’s bike ride trying to avoid the rain. I started today’s bike ride at 8:49 AM and finished at 11:16 AM. There was a brief encounter with light rain but I kept pedaling. The route headed north from Kingwood through Porter, New Caney, over the Caney Creek bridge then under the highway to start the ride back to Kingwood. I call this the “Kingwood – FM1485 – Kingwood” which I ride frequently. So far in 2021 I biked this 13 times. Today I biked 31.64 miles bumping the week’s total to 116.58 miles.

With the light wind I built my average speed up to 14.2 mph for several miles. At the start the sky was partly cloudy but as the ride progressed the clouds gathered. After finishing the ride I heard thunder several times and .13″ rain fell so my early start avoided this. Weather conditions: start 86 (78% humidity, 78.1 dew point), fair, wind calm; finish 90 (62% humidity, 75.1 dew point), partly cloudy, wind S 8 mph.