Happy Fourth of July. I employed the same bike ride strategy today as Sunday, start very early and then go to church except it was the Kingwood parade today. I even started 2 minutes earlier at 6:10 AM. Aboard my Cervelo Caledonia I wasn’t expecting much traffic and there wasn’t. A few people were up early walking and I saw two guys on their bikes in Elm Grove Village. I’m not sure if they were getting ready to ride or finished. We waved and said hello. Sunday I biked just over 20 miles and I wanted to repeat that or more today. I finished a little later today at 7:54 AM and rode 22.88 miles.

As to be expected the humidity was high and the temperature wasn’t too bad. At the finish my bike kit was dripping. I had to peel it off. Weather: Start 77 degrees, 92% humidity, dew point 74.5, partly cloudy, wind S 4 mph; Finish 80 degrees, 92% humidity, mostly cloudy, wind S 4 mph. It was a good thing I rode before the parade rather than after because it rained after the parade.

I rode through Kingwood with a brief time through Woodridge Forest and north. Riding on Adams Street got me the Strava Local Legend on Trikelly and then I went back through Woodridge Forest and into Kingwood. It wasn’t the same route as Sunday but I did bike on some of the same streets. Last year I biked the Spring Creek Greenway on July 4th riding 29 miles.

This probably the last time for biking this early for awhile.