{"id":3165,"date":"2009-11-21T10:15:03","date_gmt":"2009-11-21T17:15:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=3165"},"modified":"2009-11-21T21:00:03","modified_gmt":"2009-11-22T04:00:03","slug":"el-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=3165","title":{"rendered":"El Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re not riding in the annual <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbaa.com\/!ETT\/ETThome.html\" target=\"_blank\">El Tour de Tucson<\/a> today.  We <a href=\"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=823\">rode it last year<\/a>; afterward, the consensus of our riding group was that it&#8217;s too dangerous, what with inexperienced riders weaving in front of you and inexplicably stopping, jersey-clad poseurs whizzing by right left and in between, hit &amp; run road ragers <a href=\"http:\/\/www.azcentral.com\/news\/articles\/2008\/11\/23\/20081123bicyclists.html\" target=\"_blank\">mowing down swaths of riders<\/a>.  So we&#8217;re sitting it out.<\/p>\n<p>But since El Tour riders participating in the 109- and 80-mile events go right past our neighborhood, I decided the least I could do this morning was cheer them on.  I rode my bike up to the corner and took a few photographs as the lead peloton of the 109-mile race came by.  These are the seeded riders, the serious competitors.  It was actually pretty exciting watching them approach and ride by.  Click any photo for a larger version:<br \/>\n<center><\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/11-21-09_1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/11-21-09_1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"11-21-09_1\" title=\"11-21-09_1\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-3192\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/11-21-09_2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/11-21-09_2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"11-21-09_2\" title=\"11-21-09_2\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-3193\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/11-21-09_3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/11-21-09_3-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"11-21-09_3\" title=\"11-21-09_3\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-3194\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/11-21-09_4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/11-21-09_4-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"11-21-09_4\" title=\"11-21-09_4\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-3195\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><\/center><br \/>\nNow, of course, I&#8217;m feeling all guilty for not entering this year!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re not riding in the annual El Tour de Tucson today. We rode it last year; afterward, the consensus of our riding group was that it&#8217;s too dangerous, what with inexperienced riders weaving in front of you and inexplicably stopping, jersey-clad poseurs whizzing by right left and in between, hit &amp; run road ragers mowing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bicycling"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3165"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3198,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3165\/revisions\/3198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}