{"id":1435,"date":"2013-10-12T19:04:12","date_gmt":"2013-10-13T00:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/?p=1435"},"modified":"2013-11-02T14:34:11","modified_gmt":"2013-11-02T19:34:11","slug":"a-breezy-fall-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/12\/a-breezy-fall-day\/","title":{"rendered":"A breezy fall day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m up early and getting ready for the FOG ride. It&#8217;s cloudy and the streets are a bit wet from some overnight rain. The forecast is not promising, with 12\u00b0 and a 70% change of rain. As I&#8217;m finishing up my bacon and egg breakfast and downing a cup of coffee I decide to check the FOG blog to see if there is a ride update. The ride has been canceled and I&#8217;m a bit disappointed. I have not been out with the guys for a number of weeks now and I was really looking forward to the ride. What to do? All dressed up and nowhere to go!<\/p>\n<p>As the day progresses there is no rain just a lot of cloud and wind, a lot of wind! Feeling the need for some physical activity I decide to get the gear together ad tae the cross bike out for a spin.<br \/>\n<iframe height='405' width='590' frameborder='0' allowtransparency='true' scrolling='no' src='http:\/\/www.strava.com\/activities\/88652807\/embed\/317892826ebc6130f5a2e4bd284768c729b7635d'><\/iframe><br \/>\nThe weather reporting says that the gusts are to 33km\/h, but it sure feels stronger. I get pushed around quite a bit by some stiff cross winds and when it&#8217;s head on I&#8217;m working hard to keep a 23 km\/hr speed. Somewhere along the ride i start to think about wind chip, my hands are getting cold.<\/p>\n<p>There is one Strava segment that I take a shot at and even with the wind at my back I only <a href=\"http:\/\/www.strava.com\/activities\/88652807\/segments\/1842602237#1842602233\">move up to 5th<\/a>. I really thought I could get that one, maybe another day with the road bike.<\/p>\n<p>On the way back along Bishop Grandin I meet up with a couple of riders, one of them looks to be on the Provincial team, a young guy with a nice bike. I pace with them for a few Km before parting ways as I turn into Southdale and head for home. After a nice warm shower I&#8217;m watching the UCI Men&#8217;s World Championship and they are racing all day, 272k m in a heavy rain. I don&#8217;t feel so bad now<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m up early and getting ready for the FOG ride. It&#8217;s cloudy and the streets are a bit wet from some overnight rain. The forecast is not promising, with 12\u00b0 and a 70% change of rain. As I&#8217;m finishing up my bacon and egg breakfast and downing a cup of coffee I decide to check [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cycling"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1435","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=1435"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1440,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1435\/revisions\/1440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}