In bicycling, a one-hundred mile ride is commonly referred to as a century. I’ve done several in the past, including twice on the MS150, my ride from Bratislava to Esztergom, and until yesterday most recently from Oak Grove to New Iberia, LA, on my ill-fated attempted ride to DC. All these previous rides, though, had been point A to point B rides. Yesterday was my first circuit century (route in blue).
Ride notes:
- I hate flats. Puncture through the middle of the tread at Jensen just inside the loop. So much for these vaunted tires.
- While failing to find a short cut through a subdivision, I did stumble upon the house of the guy from whom I bought the hovercraft.
- I like tail winds.
- Stopped for lunch in New Caney.
- Oddest street name: Lawsuit Lane, in New Caney.
- I don’t like headwinds.
- To avoid the above, cut through on Grogan’s Mill and rode by JP’s old apartment.
- Rested underneath the overpass at I-45 and Steubner Airline, and again at Pershing MS on Hardy.
- Seven and a half hours of biking to do 109 miles…not too bad…would like to get it to avg. 15mph.
