{"id":573896788,"date":"2024-04-09T21:35:31","date_gmt":"2024-04-10T01:35:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573896788"},"modified":"2024-04-18T03:29:07","modified_gmt":"2024-04-18T07:29:07","slug":"first-ride-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2024\/04\/09\/first-ride-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"First ride of the year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After 1,323 miles on the trainer during a mild winter, this afternoon was my first outdoor ride since December.<\/p>\n<p>Right from the start, and throughout this 30-miler, it was wonderful. The weather was perfect. The wind was in my face. My legs burned, but kept going, and I got a text that my lovely bride&#8217;s swim had been canceled, and that she, too, was going out for a ride. I managed to find her, and we did the last six miles or so together.<\/p>\n<p>Now, at last, spring is here. <\/p>\n<p>Erudite wheelmen would speak of the hum of their wheels, the grip of bar tape, bidons.<\/p>\n<p>Poets would write of the power and purpose of getting back into the drops. Really, it&#8217;s heart and joyful freedom. <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/apr24\/apr19.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Freedom to ride hard, to soft pedal, to weave over the road like a kid. Freedom to try on that hill, or to not. And the thrill of coming down the other side, no matter the effort on the way up.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the carefree feeling we rode with as kids.<\/p>\n<p>Already, it feels like a great year of riding.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/blog\/banners\/bannercalifornia.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>But maybe you&#8217;re here for a different sort of enjoyment and relaxation. Got you covered. Here&#8217;s another shot from an entirely unremarkable vista view on the Pacific Coast Highway. <\/p>\n<div style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%;height:0;overflow:hidden;\"> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"width:100%;height:100%;position:absolute;left:0px;top:0px;overflow:hidden\" frameborder=\"0\" type=\"text\/html\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dailymotion.com\/embed\/video\/x8wzfke\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" allowfullscreen title=\"Dailymotion Video Player\" > <\/iframe> <\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>They have so many of them that they don&#8217;t even name them or, really, even mark them all that well. But they&#8217;re each lovely. We assume they&#8217;re all lovely. We weren&#8217;t able to see each one. <\/p>\n<p>Guess we&#8217;ll have to go back one day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After 1,323 miles on the trainer during a mild winter, this afternoon was my first outdoor ride since December. Right from the start, and throughout this 30-miler, it was wonderful. The weather was perfect. The wind was in my face. My legs burned, but kept going, and I got a text that my lovely bride&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,109,40,43,10,8,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573896788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventures","category-california","category-cycling","category-overwriting","category-photo","category-tuesday","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573896788","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=573896788"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573896788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573896790,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573896788\/revisions\/573896790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573896788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573896788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573896788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}