{"id":5266,"date":"2010-07-15T20:52:07","date_gmt":"2010-07-16T01:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/?p=5266"},"modified":"2010-07-15T20:52:07","modified_gmt":"2010-07-16T01:52:07","slug":"july-15th-bike-ride-drive-home-traffic-torture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2010\/07\/15\/july-15th-bike-ride-drive-home-traffic-torture\/","title":{"rendered":"July 15th Bike Ride &#8211; Drive Home Traffic Torture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today was traffic purgatory both to work and coming home. TxDOT is repairing a section of US59 southbound during the morning drive time. This had traffic backed up for miles. So my drive to work was frustrating but fortunately I remembered a route I used many years ago and was able to drive around the blockage. The drive home was even worse. An 18-wheeler had some kind of accident on US59 north and traffic was at a total stop. My drive around route was not quite as successful as in the morning so I was delayed. This slowed the start of the evening ride by about 13 minutes. I was afraid I would not be able to go on my planned route but I made it. Tomorrow the traffic has to be better; the road repair has disappeared from the traffic map and the 18-wheeler has been cleared off.<\/p>\n<p>Once I got home the 101 degree heat index and the 93 degree actual temperature were waiting. The humidity still seems to be mild though I was sweating a lot while I was riding. Blue skies continued with a 11 mph SE wind. Not bad weather for riding.<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s ride statistics:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>miles 24.65<\/li>\n<li>riding time 1:37:17<\/li>\n<li>average pace = 3:57 min\/mile<\/li>\n<li>average speed = 15.2 mph<\/li>\n<li>max speed = 21.4 mph<\/li>\n<li>average cadence = 79.9 rpm<\/li>\n<li>max cadence = 108 rpm<\/li>\n<li>climb 169 ft., descend 155 ft., max elevation 108 ft.<\/li>\n<li>July miles 252.52<\/li>\n<li>YTD miles 2819.18<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>[nggallery id=77]<\/p>\n<p>[iframe http:\/\/connect.garmin.com:80\/activity\/embed\/40563474 465 548]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today was traffic purgatory both to work and coming home. TxDOT is repairing a section of US59 southbound during the morning drive time. This had traffic backed up for miles. So my drive to work was frustrating but fortunately I <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2010\/07\/15\/july-15th-bike-ride-drive-home-traffic-torture\/\"><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-5266","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-1mW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5266","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=5266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5266\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}