{"id":820,"date":"2008-11-21T18:12:34","date_gmt":"2008-11-22T01:12:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=820"},"modified":"2008-11-21T18:12:34","modified_gmt":"2008-11-22T01:12:34","slug":"el-tour-eve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=820","title":{"rendered":"El Tour Eve"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s the night before the big day: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbaa.com\/!ETT\/ETThome.html\" target=\"_blank\">El Tour de Tucson<\/a> is tomorrow.\u00a0 Donna and I (and Darrell, and Lorri, and Mary Anne \u2014 the core members of the <a href=\"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=291\" target=\"_self\">Trail Trash<\/a>) are riding the 35-mile section of this annual event.\u00a0 Next year we may tackle the 67-miler.\u00a0 The really good riders, of course, are doing either the 80-miler or the whole 109 miles.\u00a0 We&#8217;re certainly not ready for that.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re carpooling to the start, and if everything goes as planned, two non-participating friends will ferry our cars to the end so that we don&#8217;t have to wait for the shuttle.\u00a0 But if things fall through at the last minute, there&#8217;s always the shuttle, so we&#8217;re not too worried.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday my air compressor decided it was a good day to die, so I&#8217;ll be pumping tires by hand in the morning.\u00a0 We&#8217;re all wearing <a href=\"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=759\" target=\"_self\">Spandex<\/a> and non-matching jerseys*, and if the photos aren&#8217;t too embarrassing I&#8217;ll post them later.<\/p>\n<p>After the finish, provided we have our own cars, we&#8217;re going to celebrate at a downtown tapas bar.\u00a0 I never knew there was any such thing in Tucson, but Mary Anne says one exists.\u00a0 If we have to take the shuttle back to the start, though, our post-ride plans will have to change.<\/p>\n<p>* One of our longer-term projects is to have some Trail Trash jerseys made.\u00a0 Goal: before next year&#8217;s El Tour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s the night before the big day: El Tour de Tucson is tomorrow.\u00a0 Donna and I (and Darrell, and Lorri, and Mary Anne \u2014 the core members of the Trail Trash) are riding the 35-mile section of this annual event.\u00a0 Next year we may tackle the 67-miler.\u00a0 The really good riders, of course, are doing [&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-820","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\/820","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=820"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":821,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820\/revisions\/821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}