{"id":4584,"date":"2010-05-01T18:14:57","date_gmt":"2010-05-01T23:14:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/?p=4584"},"modified":"2010-05-01T18:14:57","modified_gmt":"2010-05-01T23:14:57","slug":"no-may-pole-but-there-was-a-may-ride-may-1st-bike-ride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2010\/05\/01\/no-may-pole-but-there-was-a-may-ride-may-1st-bike-ride\/","title":{"rendered":"No May Pole But There Was A May Ride, May 1st Bike Ride"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Once upon a time I did dance\/run around a May Pole. It was a tether ball post decorated with streamers. This had to be at young age, maybe 6 or 7. Any older and one would be considered foolish to engage in such activity. Bike riding is a different thing though. After doing some chores around the house I headed out for a longer ride than usual for a Saturday. Spring weather has arrived with the temperature at 87 degrees and mostly cloudy. I thought March was supposed to be the month with the wind but today was windy with a steady 15 to 20 mph SSE wind. At about the 41 mile mark I was bonking. I had eaten a banana and a little cup of sunflower seeds before leaving. This was not enough fuel to power against the wind. So a stop at the Valero station on FM1314 was in order. After some Mesquite BBQ Kettle chips and a couple of Fiber One bars along with 30 minutes of rest I was ready to do battle with the wind. Made it home and now I am in recovery mode.<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s ride statistics:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>miles = 52.53<\/li>\n<li>riding time = 3:35:53<\/li>\n<li>average pace = 4:07 min\/mile<\/li>\n<li>average speed = 14.6 mph<\/li>\n<li>max speed = 21.4 mph<\/li>\n<li>average cadence = 76.0 rpm<\/li>\n<li>max cadence = 108 rpm<\/li>\n<li>climb 407 ft., descend 416 ft.<\/li>\n<li>May miles 52.53<\/li>\n<li>YTD miles 1452.34<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>[nggallery id=31]<\/p>\n<p>[iframe http:\/\/connect.garmin.com:80\/activity\/embed\/31889941 465 548]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once upon a time I did dance\/run around a May Pole. It was a tether ball post decorated with streamers. This had to be at young age, maybe 6 or 7. Any older and one would be considered foolish to <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2010\/05\/01\/no-may-pole-but-there-was-a-may-ride-may-1st-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":[14],"tags":[1602,1350,1424],"class_list":["post-4584","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-1bW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4584","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=4584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4584\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}