{"id":1375,"date":"2013-06-30T17:20:12","date_gmt":"2013-06-30T22:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/?p=1375"},"modified":"2013-06-30T17:21:03","modified_gmt":"2013-06-30T22:21:03","slug":"ride-of-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/30\/ride-of-the-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Ride of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A nice sunny warm summer day as we&#8217;re into Day 2 of our vacation. The ride got underway at about 8am to beat the heat of the day.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/app.strava.com\/activities\/63816388\/embed\/915285d46d09d3463e5571e6c3387e89406770f8\" height=\"405\" width=\"590\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The route was along some standard roads that I&#8217;ve ridden before, but with a twist, a general reverse direction from the normal ride. \u00a0Encountered an unusual number of riders out on the road, over a dozen other cyclists, most &#8220;roadies&#8221; going in the opposite direction. I exchanges a friendly wave, and most responded. In Kenora I took another shot at the <a href=\"http:\/\/app.strava.com\/activities\/63816388#1208255368\" target=\"_blank\">Harbour Front Sprint KOM<\/a>, and came up a couple of seconds short. One day soon, I&#8217;m going to nail that one.<\/p>\n<p>On the way bacd as I came off Jones Road and onto Hwy 17 East, another rider went by in my direction. He was wearing and aero helmut and had aero bars. I also noticed a PowerTap hub, so a serious rider, probably a &#8220;Tri-Guy&#8221;. I caught up fairly quickly, he was younger (30-40) going fairly quick, but a little slower pace that I wanted to finish of my ride to the Storm Bay raod with, so I passed him and wished him a &#8220;Good Morning&#8221;. \u00a0I fully expected him to jump on my wheel and perhaps pass, but it didn&#8217;t happen. I was pulling 275-300 watts and opened up a fair size gap over the next kms. Maybe it was a recovery ride.<\/p>\n<p>I took it fairly easy on the Storm Bay road to the cottage to cool down, and jumped in the lake for my reward for the 90km ride.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A nice sunny warm summer day as we&#8217;re into Day 2 of our vacation. The ride got underway at about 8am to beat the heat of the day. The route was along some standard roads that I&#8217;ve ridden before, but with a twist, a general reverse direction from the normal ride. \u00a0Encountered an unusual number [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6,71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cycling","category-the-lake","category-vacation-2"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1375"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1380,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1375\/revisions\/1380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}