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Tour de Houston and Tour de Trailer Park

Saturday was one of the prettiest days we've had in Houston in quite a while. A bit hot if anything, but I'm not complaining.

I rode the Tour de Houston organized bike ride Saturday morning and had a really good time. It was advertised as a 70 mile route going mainly up and down the Hardy Toll Road. How often do you get to ride on the toll road? The ride was good and the wind wasn't super strong. I saw various Houston Racing members throughout the ride, but never really stuck with anyone. Also, my plan to shamelessly draft never came to fruition because people were all over the place and I never found anyone keeping a steady speed or a straight line! We had a bit of a cross/head wind on the way out, but nothing to complain about, and the tail wind on the way home was nice. I ended up flying on the way back and was holding 25mph for decent stretches at a time. That certainly never happens. I was at 17.9mph average when I got off the tollroad and tried soooo hard to get it up to 18.0 to finish the ride, but the potholes almost got the best of me and I figured it wasn't exactly safe to ride aero through the obstacle course we call Hardy Road. The course ended up a bit short too - only 64 miles, but I'll take it. My legs needed the break. Speaking of break, the little time I took off last week did wonders for my legs. Saturday was the first time I had done a long ride on fresh legs and it felt WONDERFUL! I was so relieved to see that my legs do actually work when I haven't run long the day before.
Saturday afternoon we headed to Twin Lakes RV Resort and Scuba Park- Houston Racing's favorite vacation spot. A number of the IMAZ group showed up and we had a good time. I swam 2 laps (~2000 meters) and called it a day. The water was still cold, but just fine in a wetsuit on a day with record high temps. I took my wetsuit off before I got out and floated around for a while to "ice" my legs. Andy and Bob came prepared with quite the feast and we cooked fajitas and had a little picnic overlooking the lake and the lovely trailers on the other side. Of course I made my required brownies as well. All in all, it was an awesome day!

Andy, Josh, Me, Bob

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