After a successful week of bike rides last week I wanted to start this week off in the same way. It has been several months since I rode the Spring Creek Greenway to Pundt Park (October 5th last year to be exact). The warm weather and low rain probability also helped make up my mind. Before leaving I finished watching stage 1 of the Itzulia Basque Country race to help inspire my bike ride.

After getting ready to ride I shot a video clip about making a change to the BiSaddle on my Lynskey Helix which I was going to ride today. The clip explains what changes I made. I will make the same changes to the BiSaddle on my Cervelo Caledonia before I ride it tomorrow.

Now out the door the bike ride started at 10:57 AM. I wanted to start a few minutes earlier but took time to eat a cookie. The last ride to Pundt Park was 42.59 miles and i wanted to ride at least that far. I didn’t look at the map from the October 5th ride but I thought I had a good idea on the streets to take. I rode through several Kingwood villages to Forest Cove and Hamblen Road to get to the trailhead at US59/I-69. That was about 10.5 miles into the ride. Pundt Park was over 10 miles away but I took a loop around to the parking lot at Jesse Jones Park rather than the shorter route. At Carter Park I took another side trip on Treashwig Road and back to the greenway. Once I reached Pundt Park I took another side trip on Spring Creek Drive and Birmhamwood Blvd. and then returned to Pundt Park. At the park I stopped at some picnic tables under a cover where two other men were talking and joined the conversation. One was riding his bike and the other man had walked from Dennis Johnston Park about 2.6 miles beyond Pundt Park. I ate a granola bar to fuel me for the return trip and drank some water. The bike ride left and I got ready to leave and the other man left too. On the way back I rode on the San Jacinto Bayou Greenway to Kingwood. It had been awhile since I rode that greenway from west to east though I have rode east to west several times.

Weather for the bike ride: start 81 degrees, 73% humidity, dew point 71, overcast, wind SW 10 mph; finish 87 degrees, 63% humidity, dew point 73, overcast, wind S 13 mph gusts 20 mph. The trees along both greenways help when it gets hot.

Earlier in the ride as I exited Jesse Jones Park I noticed my Bolt computer screen popped a Strava segment and started giving me data about how I was doing on the segment. I had never seen that before on a ride. The segment was interrupted when I rode onto Treaschwig Road. On the way back from Pundt Park two more Strava segments showed on the Bolt and I increased my speed for the segments. I wonder if segments will show up on my other rides now. I’ll find out on tomorrow’s bike ride. Below are some segment results.