After today’s bike ride I watched my video and it reminded me of all the trees around Kingwood. Riding on Mills Branch Drive the trees towered on the sides of the road. We are on the edge of the Big Thicket and it shows.

After getting home from church and eating a snack I rode out on the bike ride at 1:21 PM. With the afternoon start I rode around Kingwood on my Lynksey Helix bike until I finished at 2:55 PM. Lately its been hotter at the finish than the start but some clouds appeared and it dropped the temperature about 4 degrees which I appreciated. A few clouds looked like they might have some rain in them but nothing fell while I was riding. Today’s humidity was 24% lower than yesterday and I wasn’t as soaked from sweat when I finished. It took a long time for my bike clothes to dry after yesterday’s ride. Today’s weather: start 94 (humidity 53%, dew point 74), partly cloudy, wind SE 9 mph; finish 90 (humidity 63%, dew point 76), mostly cloudy, wind SW 6 mph.

I rode 19.31 miles today ending the week with 235.97 miles, the 9th week in a row at 200+ miles. For July I am only 18 miles away from the 800 mile goal with 782.09 miles. Year to date I’ve rode 5,539 miles, 16 miles less than 2021 and 90 miles behind 2020. Today was the 15th time biking the Kingwood streets route but not all of them were the same streets.