{"id":573881737,"date":"2011-06-28T23:04:10","date_gmt":"2011-06-29T04:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573881737"},"modified":"2011-06-29T00:20:36","modified_gmt":"2011-06-29T05:20:36","slug":"too-much-time-in-the-saddle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2011\/06\/28\/too-much-time-in-the-saddle\/","title":{"rendered":"Too much time in the saddle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I set out to ride 51 miles today, but cut it short out of fatigue and a threatening storm. I finished at 42 miles, though, which is now the place the mental wall is going up. Three times I&#8217;ve been to 42 miles now, and each has felt just about the most I could possibly do.<\/p>\n<p>We discussed this at the bike shop this afternoon. Seems I should eat more. <\/p>\n<p>Pictures from the trip? I took a few.<\/p>\n<p>This is before I bottomed out:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/june11\/june73.jpg\" alt=\"Countryside\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>And this is about the spot where my endurance betrayed me:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/june11\/june74.jpg\" alt=\"Curve\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>So I plodded on through much of my pre-planned course. Stopped to refill the drink bottles across the street from the old <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Bottle,_Alabama\">Bottle<\/a>. (Wikipedia calls it a community, but that&#8217;s overstating the case.) The landmark has been gone for years, but it is still on state maps. Here&#8217;s the scene today:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/june11\/june75.jpg\" alt=\"Countryside\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I set out to ride 51 miles today, but cut it short out of fatigue and a threatening storm. I finished at 42 miles, though, which is now the place the mental wall is going up. Three times I&#8217;ve been to 42 miles now, and each has felt just about the most I could possibly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,28,10,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573881737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cycling","category-iphone","category-photo","category-tuesday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573881737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573881737"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573881737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573881738,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573881737\/revisions\/573881738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573881737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573881737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573881737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}