{"id":573889697,"date":"2016-08-16T22:55:51","date_gmt":"2016-08-17T03:55:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573889697"},"modified":"2017-05-01T14:15:04","modified_gmt":"2017-05-01T19:15:04","slug":"pedal-harder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2016\/08\/16\/pedal-harder\/","title":{"rendered":"Pedal harder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We had a 26-mile ride today. I forgot to take pictures: <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/aug16\/aug23.jpg\" alt=\"Specialized Allez\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>So that&#8217;s the front fork of the bike in the house. Anyway, four categorized climbs, and I descended at 41.9 miles per hour. <\/p>\n<p>I forgot to take pictures because I snuck off the front of the group in the first neighborhood. There are two stop signs through there and I figured someone would come catch me at the second one, at least, given that it has a weird little climb involved. But when I got there, I was still alone, and then I caught a break with oncoming traffic at the next two intersections. <\/p>\n<p>By then I was off the front and apparently out of sight. I figured on some of those climbs someone would catch up, but it turns out most of them had forgotten about me. I rode the entire ride out front and by myself and made it back to the starting point all alone. I&#8217;m seldom ever strong enough for a good breakaway, but I guess the timing was right and the makeup of the group was all wrong to catch me. It was a great feeling. I&#8217;ll coast on that feeling for a good while, I&#8217;m sure.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We had a 26-mile ride today. I forgot to take pictures: So that&#8217;s the front fork of the bike in the house. Anyway, four categorized climbs, and I descended at 41.9 miles per hour. I forgot to take pictures because I snuck off the front of the group in the first neighborhood. There are two [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,10,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573889697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cycling","category-photo","category-tuesday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573889697","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573889697"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573889697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573889698,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573889697\/revisions\/573889698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573889697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573889697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573889697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}