{"id":573887777,"date":"2015-03-16T21:35:53","date_gmt":"2015-03-17T02:35:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573887777"},"modified":"2015-03-23T17:45:52","modified_gmt":"2015-03-23T22:45:52","slug":"the-gassed-rider","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2015\/03\/16\/the-gassed-rider\/","title":{"rendered":"The gassed rider"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m taking a bike ride today. I had grease on me before I&#8217;d even filled a water bottle. I took this as a sign of a good day in the saddle. <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/mar15\/mar32.jpg\" alt=\"thumb\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I rode the bike leg of a super sprint tri course today. The event is coming up in two weeks and a friend is going to ride it. I figured if I turned on the tracking software and forwarded the data to her that she could, after laughing at my outputs, perhaps get something useful from the experience. <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/mar15\/mar33.jpg\" alt=\"thumb\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I am so very out of shape. So out of shape that it only takes a 16-mile ride and a few small hills to prove it. <\/p>\n<p>She&#8217;s an out-of-towner, the person I&#8217;m riding for today, but she knows the roads. It could be, I&#8217;d figured, that she only knows them in a car though, so I wrote notes like &#8220;Watch out for this drainage grate there&#8221; and &#8220;Even in good form this pretend little hill always kills me there and I don&#8217;t know why.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>She pronounced my email the best ever. I think she was just chuckling at my speeds, though. <\/p>\n<p>I caught one cyclist on one stretch and passed another on a climb. I&#8217;m also perfectly, embarrassingly out of shape. This was still one of my first rides of the year because of schedules and life and weather. <\/p>\n<p>But, hey, spring! <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/mar15\/mar34.jpg\" alt=\"thumb\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m taking a bike ride today. I had grease on me before I&#8217;d even filled a water bottle. I took this as a sign of a good day in the saddle. I rode the bike leg of a super sprint tri course today. The event is coming up in two weeks and a friend is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,40,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573887777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-auburn","category-cycling","category-photo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573887777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573887777"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573887777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573887781,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573887777\/revisions\/573887781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573887777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573887777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573887777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}