If there is a route I would ride blindfolded or in the dark today’s route is probably the one, but I don’t plan on trying it. I ride this one the most in a year and I’m not sure why. Maybe its easy to streets and I like the scenery? The route is my “Atascocita – Walden – Huffman” which I biked 18 times this year. When I used Golden Cheetah one of the tabs showed the routes’ ride count in a colored box with a larger box for more and a smaller box for less times. All 18 rides are not on the identical streets as I throw in or take out a street or greenbelt trail segment. Today I biked 34.29 miles which longer than many but not the longest. I rode on a short greenbelt trail section in Bear Branch Village that I haven’t used before to widen the distance between two “U” shaped side streets. In North Woodland Hills Village I took a side street that I only started using lately. The rest of the ride was on the usual streets and roads. No other cyclists along the ride though.

I can’t seem to get rolling before 9 AM during the week and I started at 9:28 AM today but with a few less miles than yesterday I finished at 12:18 PM before it got to the hottest part of the day. Some clouds shielded me from the some at times but it was still hot. More training for the HH100. While it was still early I installed a small solar panel to power a video camera that I have put off for a while due to the afternoon sun hitting the spot where it needed to be. Weather conditions: start 86 (humidity 76%, dew point 77), partly cloudy, wind S 8 mph; finish 94 (humidity 51%, dew point 73), partly cloudy wind SW 12 mph. One think about wearing a black cycling kit, salt stains show up easily. I had some today though it took the return to Kingwood for them to get more prominent on my arm sleeves. The 12 mph wind made for hard pedaling going west over Lake Houston and I changed to the 35×15 gears to compensate.

My most often used gears, 35×15 and 35×13, were not too far apart in riding time today: 1:02:06 for the 35×15 and 1:21:56 turning 35×13. 6904 crank revolutions for the whole ride. Link to AXS.SRAM.com ride report.