{"id":5218,"date":"2010-07-08T22:41:28","date_gmt":"2010-07-09T03:41:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/?p=5218"},"modified":"2010-07-08T22:41:28","modified_gmt":"2010-07-09T03:41:28","slug":"july-8th-bike-ride-wow-they-sure-dried-fast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2010\/07\/08\/july-8th-bike-ride-wow-they-sure-dried-fast\/","title":{"rendered":"July 8th Bike Ride &#8211; Wow! They Sure Dried Fast!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the way to work this morning I pretty much wrote off today for riding but on the way home I noticed the streets were pretty dry in my area so I began to think riding was possible. While the skies were overcast with the occasional break for the sun. Wind was a light 8 mph from the SE. Temperature felt cool when I left home at 84 degrees. Over the last two days the area had almost 8 inches of rain. This more than we usually have all month.<\/p>\n<p>After one day off the bike due to the rain it was good to get back on. It is amazing how fast the streets dry off once the rain stops. I think it was still raining at 3:00 PM but by 6:30 PM I had to look closely to see signs of the rain. For a moment I was saying to myself &#8220;take today off and ride on Friday.&#8221; Friday is normally a rest day to prepare for Saturday&#8217;s long ride. The drying out changed my mind.<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s Ride Statistics:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>miles = 22.86<\/li>\n<li>riding time = 1:30:30<\/li>\n<li>average pace = 3:58 min\/mile<\/li>\n<li>average speed = 15.2 mph<\/li>\n<li>max speed = 20.0 mph<\/li>\n<li>average cadence = 79.6 rpm<\/li>\n<li>max cadence = 105 rpm<\/li>\n<li>climb 156 ft., descend 153 ft., max elevation 109 ft.<\/li>\n<li>July miles 126.33<\/li>\n<li>YTD miles 2692.99<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>[nggallery id=73]<\/p>\n<p>[iframe http:\/\/connect.garmin.com:80\/activity\/embed\/39727321 465 548]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the way to work this morning I pretty much wrote off today for riding but on the way home I noticed the streets were pretty dry in my area so I began to think riding was possible. While the <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2010\/07\/08\/july-8th-bike-ride-wow-they-sure-dried-fast\/\"><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-5218","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-1ma","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5218","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=5218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5218\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}