{"id":294,"date":"2007-08-21T17:29:08","date_gmt":"2007-08-21T23:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/21\/drafting\/"},"modified":"2007-08-21T17:29:15","modified_gmt":"2007-08-21T23:29:15","slug":"drafting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/21\/drafting\/","title":{"rendered":"Drafting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An unusual thing happened on the ride home from work today, a guy passed me.<\/p>\n<p>Normally, I&#8217;m passing the other cyclists but this time a guy passed me. He was wearing an Olympia jersey, packing some gear and riding a mountain bike, obviously a serious cycling commuter such as myself. So, of course I stepped it up a bit and fell in behind him enjoying the draft. Then he pulled out into the middle of the lane for a short period and then back to the curb. At first, I didn&#8217;t know what to make of this but when he did it the second time I knew it was an invitation to take the lead an pull for a while. We worked it most of the way down St. Marys and we&#8217;re flying at a very respectable 36-37km\/h. This doesn&#8217;t happen very often especially on the commute ride, and it was fun to silently fall into the pattern of helping each other speed up the ride.<\/p>\n<p>It was a good thing to go a little faster than normal as a major downpour erupted as I pulled into the driveway. I hope he made it home before the storm as well. Good riding buddy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An unusual thing happened on the ride home from work today, a guy passed me. Normally, I&#8217;m passing the other cyclists but this time a guy passed me. He was wearing an Olympia jersey, packing some gear and riding a mountain bike, obviously a serious cycling commuter such as myself. So, of course I stepped [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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-294","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\/294","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=294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}