Today was the first bike ride on my Lynskey Helix since the flat tire on Wednesday’s ride. I didn’t expect a problem but it could happen. It turned out no problems from the front tire patch during the ride. I rolled away at 9:06 AM to ride my Kingwood – FM 1485 – Kingwood route. I expected to ride about 31 miles but I changed a few streets and ended up biking 33.65 miles. During 2022 I’ve rode this route 8 times including today. The typical distance is 31 to 32 miles. Today’s miles pushed my week total to 191.57 miles, well within range of a 200+ mile week. The month now totals 294.56 miles 41% of the way to my 720 mile goal.

An unexpected cyclist encounter happened early in the ride on Village Springs Drive. I was riding and thinking of a problem I worked on before the ride not paying close attention to oncoming traffic. Coming from behind a large trash bin in the streets near the curb a lady on a bike suddenly appeared coming towards me and I veered quickly to my left to avoid running into her. I wasn’t expecting someone on my side of the street riding at me.

Later in the ride while I was waiting to ride across Kingwood Place Drive I saw another cyclist riding towards me. As he neared I recognized it was Ronnie Clark who I biked with a number of times a few years ago. He saw me and pulled over and we chatted for 10 minutes or so.

Link to my AXS.SRAM.com ride report.

Fall like weather for the start of the ride but warming up by the 12:28 PM finish. Weather overview: start 78 (humidity 78%, dew point 71), a few clouds, wind NE 5 mph; finish 85 (humidity 60%, dew point 70), partly cloudy, wind SW 4 mph.