This has been a mixed up week for bike rides. The routes have been varied with no repeats. Today’s bike ride was the first one to go north on my New Caney – Tavola – Valley Ranch route. I even got started earlier than yesterday with wheels down at 9:11 AM today. I rode my Cervelo Caledonia bike for 36.88 miles. This gets me closer to a 200 mile with 185.91 miles so far. Today’s route is one of my more frequent ones with 12 rides so far this year. I finished the bike ride at 12:09 PM

While I was out riding the weather changed some with the clouds increasing and the wind shifting to the SE. Near the end of the ride the streets in Bear Branch Village and Hunters Ridge Village were wet from an earlier rain before I got there. It wasn’t much rain because my weather station didn’t record any. Weather conditions for the bike ride: start 78 (humidity 81%, dew point 72), partly cloudy, wind NE 6 mph; finish 82 (humidity 82%, dew point 76), mostly cloudy, wind SE 6 mph. Fortunately the wind remained light.

On the way back to Kingwood I built up my average speed to 14.1 mph and maintained it until I got to the Kingwood streets and riding slower. I used the 35×13 gears for 1:56:10 riding time out a total moving time 2:43:16 according to the AXS.SRAM ride report. I shifted the RD 19 times during the ride. At the beginning of the ride I thought my legs were not going to pedal strongly but by around mile 7 they felt better.