It was hot when I start today’s bike ride at 1:36 PM after getting home from church. With that in mind I decided to ride the Kingwood greenbelt trails to take advantage of the tree shade. Even then it was still hot with not much wind blowing and the trees slowing that down. It was a slow ride on my Lynskey Helix bike. The last time I concentrated biking on the greenbelt trails was August 1st, 2021. It was hot on that ride too. The heat was a good opportunity to remind me of the Hotter’N Hell 100 next month.

The weather while was riding the trails: start 98 (humidity 49%, dew point 76), a few clouds, wind variable 6 mph; finish 100 (humidity 41%, dew point 72), partly cloudy, wind NW 9 mph. The heat index was 111.

Kingwood has almost 70 miles of greenbelt trails and my 11.49 miles today left many miles for another ride. I chose trail that took me by the village pool in each village I rode through. Some pools were sparsely populated probably because of the temperature. I don’t blame them. I captured each pool in the video as I rode nearby. Some of the trails today I haven’t been on for sometime.

Today wrapped up this week’s biking. I rode each day for a total of 225.56 miles making this the 7th week in a row of 200+ miles. June biking now totals 311.33 miles, 39% of the way to my 800 mile goal. I rode the Cervelo Caledonia 4 times and the Lynskey Helix 3 days. I averaged 32.22 miles per ride.