{"id":573892064,"date":"2020-04-03T21:55:20","date_gmt":"2020-04-04T01:55:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573892064"},"modified":"2020-04-13T22:10:52","modified_gmt":"2020-04-14T02:10:52","slug":"ride-and-ride-faster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2020\/04\/03\/ride-and-ride-faster\/","title":{"rendered":"Ride and ride faster"},"content":{"rendered":"

After work today — and I did work today, there were meetings and emails and planning and executing some things, even if it was not at a pace one is accustomed to — it was time for a …<\/p>\n

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… time trial? We found a route just outside of town, parked at the local winery, which is closed and empty, and did four loops on a flat course where all the roads looked like this, for the entirety of the 27 miles. We were riding on frontage roads on either side of the highway, but I think I was passed by four cars. For the sake of comparison, one other cyclist passed me. <\/p>\n

But it all looked like this, empty and quiet, which is why I was taking one-handed photos at about 25 miles per hour. <\/p>\n

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Which is where I was riding in that particular area of the course. It was the fastest mile on the course for me and, having noticed that the first three times through, I knew that’s where I was taking my picture, just so I could actually suggest I was fast, on this one part of the full course. <\/p>\n

It’s a good course. I suspect we’ll be back a few times this year, just to chart our progress.<\/p>\n

The gardens at the winery are quite lovely. And since no one was there, and we were outside and it was a joy to do it, we took about 10 minutes of indulgent photographs before loading the bikes back on the car.<\/p>\n

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I like to imagine these are ruins, and not just lawn decorations:<\/p>\n

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So … big weekend plans?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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