{"id":1096,"date":"2011-06-15T09:06:34","date_gmt":"2011-06-15T14:06:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/?p=1096"},"modified":"2011-06-15T09:06:34","modified_gmt":"2011-06-15T14:06:34","slug":"picking-up-the-pace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/picking-up-the-pace\/","title":{"rendered":"Picking Up The Pace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night I met Munkirs for the Tuesday night bike ride out at Mission Farms shopping center.\u00a0 That route is still growing on me, it&#8217;s just a pretty nice ride.\u00a0 It started off as usual, a huge group of riders in a big bunch taking up a whole lane.\u00a0 Then, also as usual, about the 5 mile mark the group started thinning out a bit and breaking up into smaller groups.\u00a0 Few more miles, the group gets smaller, and by that time Munkirs and I have usually settled into our pace for the evening.\u00a0 Towards the end of the route I was feeling pretty drained, and when we finished and checked our cheap, barely functional, non-Garmin computers we both showed just a bit over a 17 mph average.\u00a0 That&#8217;s pretty zippy for old men like us, definitely the fastest we&#8217;ve ridden that route this year.\u00a0 I have a feeling it&#8217;s also about the max speed for that group, I don&#8217;t think we&#8217;ll see much faster than that.\u00a0 I threw in a little bonus for the evening too, and rode my bike from the house out to the ride.\u00a0 A little pre-planning might have resulted in a slightly slower speed during the ride, so I&#8217;d be able to actually get back home under my own power.\u00a0 I made it though, albeit at a much slower pace, for a total of 32 miles on the evening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night I met Munkirs for the Tuesday night bike ride out at Mission Farms shopping center.\u00a0 That route is still growing on me, it&#8217;s just a pretty nice ride.\u00a0 It started off as usual, a huge group of riders in a big bunch taking up a whole lane.\u00a0 Then, also as usual, about the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1096\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}