I didn’t get to bike yesterday so today’s bike ride needed to make up some of the missed miles if I’m going to reach 200+ miles for the week. With the hot weather I didn’t wait too late to start the bike ride so I did not watch the Tour de Suisse (2.UWT) before the ride. I rolled away at 8:46 AM on Flag Day riding my Cervelo Caledonia bike. It was already 83 degrees with mostly cloudy sky with haze from the Saharan dust. Thankfully the wind was only 8 mph from the south. The forecast called for upper 90’s as the high after 99 yesterday. No rain in sight. Another reason to start early was to finish before it got really hot and I finished at 12:03 PM.

When I started I planned on biking to Ramsey Road and back but I changed to my “Kingwood to Peters Road – Kingwood” route to add more distance. While the roads on this route are not new this was only the 2nd time biking the route according to SportTracks. The other ride was May 5th, 2021. Today’s 42.36 miles was more than May 5’s 41.06 miles. That ride I rode my Lynskey R300 bike. As a side note, I sold the Lynskey R300 and now my fleet is back to 3 bikes.

I wasn’t the only cyclist out today. I caught other cyclists in the video or commented on them when I missed recording them.

No big changes in the FM 1960 construction at Atascocita Shores Drive.

Weather conditions: start 83 (humidity 82%, dew point 77), mostly cloudy with haze, wind S 8 mph; finish 92 (humidity 53%, dew point 72), partly cloudy, wind S 9 mph. When I got home and emptied out my CamelBak the ice had melted but the water was still cool.

On the way back I stopped at the Kings River pool area for a few minutes to rest a few minutes and took this photo.

I use the Stravini Chrome extension to expand the ride data from Strava. Below is some of the data details from the ride. The route elevation doesn’t change much but the grade details are interesting. Also I pedaled 9,695 revolutions. More ride data at AXS.SRAM.com ride report.