{"id":4297,"date":"2010-03-25T20:49:24","date_gmt":"2010-03-26T01:49:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/?p=4297"},"modified":"2010-03-25T20:49:24","modified_gmt":"2010-03-26T01:49:24","slug":"back-on-the-road-again-clear-skies-and-a-strong-wind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2010\/03\/25\/back-on-the-road-again-clear-skies-and-a-strong-wind\/","title":{"rendered":"Back on the Road Again, Clear Skies and a Strong Wind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a two day interruption I managed to get a ride in tonight even though I stopped on the way home for the Clear WiMax blogger party at Dave &amp; Buster&#8217;s. I have been waiting several years for this service to arrive in Houston and it looks like it goes live next week or so. So I got a little later start on the bike ride tonight.<\/p>\n<p>The clear skies are a welcome sight after yesterday&#8217;s drizzle all day. With 61 degrees and a NNW wind at 14 mph dressing properly was again an issue. For a change I got it right: long sleeve fleece jersey over a T-shirt, Pearl Izumi windbreaker jacket, leg warmers, long fingered gloves. I was comfortable the whole ride. My road bike (Mercier Serpens Ltd 2.0) was up to the challenge.<\/p>\n<p>Tonight&#8217;s ride statistics:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>miles = 16.21<\/li>\n<li>ride time = 1:07:41<\/li>\n<li>average pace = 4.11 min\/mile<\/li>\n<li>average speed = 14.4<\/li>\n<li>average cadence = 76.7<\/li>\n<li>max cadence = 109<\/li>\n<li>climb = 161 ft., descend = 177 ft.<\/li>\n<li>YTD miles = 784.15<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Charts and map for the ride.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[nggallery id=10]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a two day interruption I managed to get a ride in tonight even though I stopped on the way home for the Clear WiMax blogger party at Dave &amp; Buster&#8217;s. I have been waiting several years for this service <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2010\/03\/25\/back-on-the-road-again-clear-skies-and-a-strong-wind\/\"><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":[14],"tags":[1602,1350,1424],"class_list":["post-4297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bicycling-news","tag-mercier-serpens-ltd-2-0","tag-ride-report","tag-road"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4tok-17j","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4297","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=4297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4297\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}