{"id":184,"date":"2006-11-11T10:13:38","date_gmt":"2006-11-11T16:13:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/?p=184"},"modified":"2006-11-11T10:13:40","modified_gmt":"2006-11-11T16:13:40","slug":"missing-the-bike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/2006\/11\/11\/missing-the-bike\/","title":{"rendered":"Missing the bike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This summer I rode by bicycle to work 2-3 times a week when I went into the office downtown. With the colder and snowier weather and being a bit lazy for some reason I&#8217;ve reverted to taking the van and driving to work.<\/p>\n<p>However, the last could of days I&#8217;ve found the traffic just totally frustrating. There were no snow storms, no accidents, no road repairs on my route, just lots of slow moving traffic. On the bike I was so used to just passing by all the &#8220;parked cars&#8221; going to and from work. Now, just sitting in the van and creeping along to get in and out of the downtown core is just too slow. Perhaps I&#8217;m just getting more impatient and need to learn to relax more. <\/p>\n<p>I think not! I just need to get over the cold issue get out there. I know how to ride in the cold and have been out in -30C, you just need to dress for it. In fact, I&#8217;ve raced in many of the <a href=\"http:\/\/icebiking.com\/\">IceBike<\/a> races here in Winnipeg. Just the other day I met up with Rob Nagy, the<a href=\"http:\/\/icebiking.com\/history.htm\"> Veteran Icebike Organizer<\/a>, and for sure I&#8217;m planning on entering IceBike #9 on February 4th, 2007. I missed #8 due to some business travel issues but manged to get down to the race course and take <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/big_dadoo\/sets\/72057594055975731\/\">some pictures<\/a>. I&#8217;m really looking forward to the blow-out events planned for the 10th anniversary. Yes, bring back the t-shirts!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This summer I rode by bicycle to work 2-3 times a week when I went into the office downtown. With the colder and snowier weather and being a bit lazy for some reason I&#8217;ve reverted to taking the van and driving to work. However, the last could of days I&#8217;ve found the traffic just totally [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184","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\/184","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}