When I started today’s bike ride at 10:08 AM I didn’t know I would hear about a confrontation or see a coyote along Kings River Drive. Riding my Cervelo Caledonia Rival AXS eTap bike I followed my most often used route, Atascocita – Walden – Huffman, today. I’m not sure why I ride this route so often but it is easy to follow. I know many of the potholes, cracks, and bumps. Recently I added a loop south to Spanish Cove Drive on FM 2100 after the road construction moved further south. Today I biked 35.71 miles which is about the average distance of the previous 28 rides this year. I finished the bike ride at 1:00 PM.

As I was riding east on Kingwood Greens Drive on the way to W. Lake Houston Parkway a man wearing a bright orange T-shirt flagged me down. He started telling me about a confrontation he had with two cyclists on the W. Lake Houston Parkway bridge sidewalk a few minutes before he flagged me down. He said the two cyclists were riding on the sidewalk and came up to him fast, stopped close to him and told him he should be walking on the road shoulder and not on the sidewalk. This is wrong, the cyclists should have been on the road. They rode passed him and turned around and came back. This time the older cyclist got in the man’s face and argued with him until the younger cyclist pulled him back. The man flagged me down to ask my opinion of him walking on the sidewalk. I told him I almost always ride on the street unless something unusual is happening there. I suggested if this happens again to record it on his phone and report it to the police. The man was upset and I don’t blame him. If I was thinking I should’ve recorded our conversation with my GoPro. The video has a clip I recorded later. This man was not impressed with the cyclists and cyclists wonder why some people are not good with them.

On the way back to Kingwood I was biking on Kings River Drive and saw a coyote on the side of the street. He wasn’t causing a problem because he was dead, maybe hit by a car. I show the coyote in the video. I have spotted them in other places in Kingwood but they were alive.

I needed to change my clothing for the ride when I got in the breakfast area to get ready. The temperature was 70 and the sun was having trouble getting from behind the clouds making me think it might be cooler than I would be comfortable with. I add a long sleeve poly T-shirt and felt better prepared. There were a few times I felt overdressed but when the sky sent some scattered rain drops down in Walden and around Kings Harbor I was just fine. There was no mention of rain in the forecast but it only lasted long enough to slightly damped the streets. Weather for the bike ride: start 70 (humidity 81%, dew point 64), partly cloudy, wind NE 6 mph; finish 80 (humidity 61%, dew point 65), mostly cloudy, wind E 6 mph.

Some data from my AXS.SRAM.com ride report.

A comparison of YTD miles progressions for years 2011 through 2022.