{"id":333,"date":"2008-02-02T14:52:37","date_gmt":"2008-02-02T20:52:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/02\/ice-bike-x-is-tomorrow\/"},"modified":"2008-02-02T14:52:42","modified_gmt":"2008-02-02T20:52:42","slug":"ice-bike-x-is-tomorrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/02\/ice-bike-x-is-tomorrow\/","title":{"rendered":"Ice Bike X is tomorrow!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yikes! It&#8217;s tomorrow! <a href=\"http:\/\/www.icebiking.com\/\">Ice Bike 2008<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Actually, I though I might have missed it already, but when I checked this morning, there it was, and I still had time to register. Well, motivation is a little low as it&#8217;s -25, but very sunny, so I went over to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.woodcockcycle.com\/\">Woodcock<\/a> and signed up. Apparently, I was too late to get the collector item T-Shirt, but hey, that&#8217;s the price of procrastination. After signing up, I figured I better be a little riding to get ready, after all the last time&nbsp; was on a bike was November 2007.<\/p>\n<p>After rounding up all the cold weather gear I headed out the The Forks to check out this years course. The Abominable is much shorter this year at 3 laps and 12km vs. the previous years distance of 20km. Most of the course was ready and marked so I took a test lap. It will be a very fast race this year as there are only two difficult sections. One is a steep downhill with a U-Turn at the bottom and a scramble up the hill again. The other stretch is along the river bank that parallels Tache Ave, where you&#8217;re riding across the sloping river bank in some loose snow. The rest of the course is hard packed and clear. Oh yeah, there are a could of stair cases to ride down, one is very steep and I&#8217;ve never ridden it down yet. After a lap, I took a slow cruise back to the house. Too late to do any training now, so it&#8217;s just gut it out on race day.<\/p>\n<p>Should be a good ride tomorrow and a little warmer at -13.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yikes! It&#8217;s tomorrow! Ice Bike 2008 Actually, I though I might have missed it already, but when I checked this morning, there it was, and I still had time to register. Well, motivation is a little low as it&#8217;s -25, but very sunny, so I went over to Woodcock and signed up. Apparently, I was [&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-333","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\/333","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=333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}