{"id":474,"date":"2008-08-30T14:41:24","date_gmt":"2008-08-30T21:41:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=474"},"modified":"2008-09-05T20:47:37","modified_gmt":"2008-09-06T03:47:37","slug":"in-training","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=474","title":{"rendered":"In Training"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We started on longer rides this morning, getting ready for our 35-mile ride in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbaa.com\/!ETT\/ETThome.html\" target=\"_blank\">El Tour de Tucson<\/a> on November 22nd, so we&#8217;re officially in training.\u00a0 This morning we hit the Rillito River bike trail, riding from one end to the other and back again, a total of 25 miles.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_476\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-476\" style=\"width: 425px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/08-30-08_2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-476\" title=\"Lorri, Darrell, Donna\" src=\"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/08-30-08_2.jpg\" alt=\"Start\/Finish, near the Rillito Bike Path\" width=\"425\" height=\"354\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-476\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Start\/Finish, near the Rillito Bike Path<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_475\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-475\" style=\"width: 425px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/08-30-08_1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-475\" title=\"Darrell, Lorri, Mary Anne, Kris, Donna\" src=\"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/08-30-08_1.jpg\" alt=\"Halfway point, Rillito Bike Trail\" width=\"425\" height=\"442\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-475\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Turnaround point<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Our plan is to do long (20 mile plus) rides every other weekend, with shorter rides in between.\u00a0 But really, if you can ride 20 or 25 miles, you can easily ride 35.\u00a0 What we&#8217;re actually doing, for any non-bicyclists who may be reading this, is toughening up our butts.<\/p>\n<p>Tucson has only two dedicated bicycle trails, the one we rode this morning and another running between the air base and downtown, maybe 25 miles total.\u00a0 Shoot, Sacramento had 60 or 70 miles along the Sacramento and American rivers way back in 1970, and probably has hundreds of miles by now.\u00a0 Our little desert town has a way to go.\u00a0 Too bad the mayor doesn&#8217;t ride a bike . . . I bet he&#8217;d shake some funds loose if he did.\u00a0 Maybe I should run for mayor.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_477\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-477\" style=\"width: 425px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/08-30-08_3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-477\" title=\"Paul, Donna\" src=\"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/08-30-08_3.jpg\" alt=\"Taking a break\" width=\"425\" height=\"444\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-477\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Taking a break<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We started on longer rides this morning, getting ready for our 35-mile ride in El Tour de Tucson on November 22nd, so we&#8217;re officially in training.\u00a0 This morning we hit the Rillito River bike trail, riding from one end to the other and back again, a total of 25 miles. Our plan is to do [&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-474","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\/474","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=474"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":514,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474\/revisions\/514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}