{"id":19686,"date":"2012-12-17T16:27:53","date_gmt":"2012-12-17T22:27:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/?p=19686"},"modified":"2017-03-17T23:46:09","modified_gmt":"2017-03-18T04:46:09","slug":"biting-northwest-wind-december-17th-bike-ride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2012\/12\/17\/biting-northwest-wind-december-17th-bike-ride\/","title":{"rendered":"Biting Northwest Wind &#8211; December 17th Bike Ride"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The overcast sky left and took the rain with it. This mans a nice clear blue sky and 70 degrees. It took several hours after the sun came up to get to 70 though. When I started getting ready to ride I took my leg warmers out of the closet but when I saw the 70 on my home weather station I did not bother wearing them. I did decide to wear a short sleeve jersey, long sleeve jersey and windbreaker jacket. The 12 mph NW wind was biting in the shade and the windbreaker was greatly appreciated.<\/p>\n<p>After riding my mountain bike last week I really wanted to get back on the road bike. The clear sky and somewhat warmth was just the right stuff so on the road bike I went. I did not see any other riders until the 25 mile point as I was going north on W Lake Houston Parkway over the San Jacinto River. there were two riders on the trail while I rode in the main lane shoulder.<\/p>\n<p>I chose the Huffman route and ended up at 30.11 miles. The average speed increased from my mountain bike one. See the slides below for ride metrics, December and YTD summaries.<\/p>\n<p>[wppa type=&#8221;slide&#8221; album=&#8221;69&#8243; size=&#8221;auto&#8221;][\/wppa]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The overcast sky left and took the rain with it. This mans a nice clear blue sky and 70 degrees. It took several hours after the sun came up to get to 70 though. When I started getting ready to <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2012\/12\/17\/biting-northwest-wind-december-17th-bike-ride\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[22],"tags":[2195,747,2185,1424],"class_list":["post-19686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bike-ride","tag-bike-ride-report","tag-huffman-texas","tag-motobecane-le-champion","tag-road"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4tok-57w","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19686\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}