{"id":615,"date":"2009-11-28T19:13:40","date_gmt":"2009-11-29T01:13:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/28\/and-then-there-were-five-2\/"},"modified":"2009-11-28T19:13:45","modified_gmt":"2009-11-29T01:13:45","slug":"and-then-there-were-five-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/28\/and-then-there-were-five-2\/","title":{"rendered":"And then there were five"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/FOGride20091128.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: 2px solid rgb(0, 0, 0);\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Today&#8217;s FOG ride started out and a very balmy -3\u00b0C and virtually no wind. The flags on the Legion were just hanging straight down. As I pulled into the parking lot at 9:50am I was greeted by one rider, Dave. As I got my gear together and we chatted, we wondered where everbody was? The temperatures have been in this zone before, and there has been a decent turnout. Before long were joined by Tom and then shortly after Roland pulls in. Great, there are four of us, and it will make for a good ride. It&#8217;s a little after 10 and Juergen rolls into to the lot. We decide to wait for him and by 10:15, we&#8217;re off.<\/p>\n<p>The ride to Lockport was a little brisk as all the blood was re-directed to the legs and away from fingers and feet, but after that it was a pleasant ride. We crossed over on 44 and out to 206 and up into Birds Hill Park. A very civilized cruise up 206 with Dave pulling all the way and nobody breaking out of the paceline for a little sprint to the top.<\/p>\n<p>We skipped the lap aroung the Park, and were cautious of a little snow and ice on the shoulders, and headed back on Hwy 59 to Prichard Farm Road for a brisk 36-37Kph run up to Henderson and then back to the Legion for 63km ride.<\/p>\n<p>The five of us a laying claim to the &#8220;Hard Men of the North&#8221; title for the remainder of the year (and perhaps longer) as this may well be the last ride of 2009 with snow forecast later in the week.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re wondering where Dave is in the photos, he rode home after leaving us at the legion, and of course the camera guy is rarely in the picture.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/pixy.gif?x-id=3535d3a8-c4ad-8104-8144-9ffef91e50aa\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s FOG ride started out and a very balmy -3\u00b0C and virtually no wind. The flags on the Legion were just hanging straight down. As I pulled into the parking lot at 9:50am I was greeted by one rider, Dave. As I got my gear together and we chatted, we wondered where everbody was? The [&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":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grab-bag"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615","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=615"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":616,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615\/revisions\/616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}