{"id":187,"date":"2006-03-12T13:11:05","date_gmt":"2006-03-12T18:11:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auroralux.net\/blog\/2006\/03\/12\/did-i-say-moderate-effort\/"},"modified":"2006-03-12T13:11:05","modified_gmt":"2006-03-12T18:11:05","slug":"did-i-say-moderate-effort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fhmiv.net\/blog\/2006\/03\/12\/did-i-say-moderate-effort\/","title":{"rendered":"Did I say &#8220;moderate effort?&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well my very logical explanation of keeping my efforts moderate early in the season didn&#8217;t survive my first real group ride of the year. Last year it was sometimes a frustrating exercise to get a group together for a ride, so I started a Columbia County Rides Mailing List<a href=\"\/ccrides\/\">ccrides<\/a>. So far this year it&#8217;s batting a thousand &#8212; did I mention I love mixing metaphors? Yesterday afternoon I asked if anyone wanted to ride this morning, and ended up joining a group of three friends who were already planning a ride. One of them was supposed to be recovering from a Century they rode yesterday, and another said he&#8217;s only been on his bike once a month since Autumn, and assured me there would be slow people there. I had no idea they were referring to me! <\/p>\n<p>I wasn&#8217;t really THAT slow, but the pace was higher than mine has been lately, and I put in a hard effort for 33 miles to keep up with them. That last couple of miles I finally dropped off the back far enough they had to wait for me at turns, so I decided to call it a day and take the most direct route back to Patriot&#8217;s Park, while they kept going for another 8 miles or so.  <\/p>\n<p>On a side note, I sometimes like to snack on Fig Newtons while on a ride. They&#8217;re relatively healthy for a cookie, except for their usage of partially hydrogenated oils, which I&#8217;m sure they use to lenghten the shelf life. Anyway, I&#8217;ve learned from experience, if you like to bring more than one kind of small snack food on a ride, the Fig Newtons should have their own bag. Almonds aren&#8217;t very good with a Fig Newton crust. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well my very logical explanation of keeping my efforts moderate early in the season didn&#8217;t survive my first real group ride of the year. Last year it was sometimes a frustrating exercise to get a group together for a ride, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/fhmiv.net\/blog\/2006\/03\/12\/did-i-say-moderate-effort\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[8],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fhmiv.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fhmiv.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fhmiv.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fhmiv.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fhmiv.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fhmiv.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fhmiv.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fhmiv.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fhmiv.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}