{"id":573894085,"date":"2022-02-17T21:04:14","date_gmt":"2022-02-18T02:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573894085"},"modified":"2022-02-19T17:18:39","modified_gmt":"2022-02-19T22:18:39","slug":"making-my-way-through-the-makuri-islands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2022\/02\/17\/making-my-way-through-the-makuri-islands\/","title":{"rendered":"Making my way through the Makuri Islands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rainy today, all day, and getting colder by the hour. <\/p>\n<p>A great day, then, to stay inside!<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/feb22\/feb29.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>So I left the office and got on the bike and rode around some fictional place. I had read about this course on Makuri Islands earlier in the day and so naturally I decided to take the hilliest route. <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/feb22\/graphic08.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>You get out of a fictional city and into the countryside, which was much more fun, even if I was moving faster through the city segment.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/feb22\/graphic09.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Did I mention this was the hilliest route in Makuri? This bit was a seven percent incline, which was fine. There were harder areas. I think I need to reset my power trainer, basically. Somehow, the level parts near the end seemed more impossible than the ramps at the beginning. <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/feb22\/graphic10.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>See those blossoming cherry trees? I&#8217;m pretty sure they weren&#8217;t blooming when the ride started. I rode through the whole blooming cycle!<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/feb22\/graphic11.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m still dialing in the positioning of the cleats of my new shoes. This is precision stuff and I am doing it by guesswork. I&#8217;m also the princess and the pea on the bicycle, so it takes a good long while. <\/p>\n<p>Much like this ride! Which I may never ride again. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rainy today, all day, and getting colder by the hour. A great day, then, to stay inside! So I left the office and got on the bike and rode around some fictional place. I had read about this course on Makuri Islands earlier in the day and so naturally I decided to take the hilliest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,10,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573894085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cycling","category-photo","category-thursday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573894085","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573894085"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573894085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573894086,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573894085\/revisions\/573894086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573894085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573894085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573894085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}