{"id":309,"date":"2007-07-04T16:00:06","date_gmt":"2007-07-04T20:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.countfour.org\/legalmoose\/2007\/07\/04\/almost-human-again\/"},"modified":"2007-07-04T16:01:10","modified_gmt":"2007-07-04T20:01:10","slug":"almost-human-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.countfour.org\/legalmoose\/2007\/07\/04\/almost-human-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Almost Human Again"},"content":{"rendered":"

Stretching, a shower, lots of food, a lie-down (not really a nap), more food, and I’m starting to feel human again. Four hours and about 20 minutes after I started I got home from today’s bike ride out the W&OD trail<\/a>, about 62 miles. Went out to mile marker 24, which is somewhere in Loudon county near Sterling<\/a>. Stopped briefly, stretched some, then turned around to head back.<\/p>\n

The ride out was great. The trails were well marked, and I had no problems switching from the Mt. Vernon Trail<\/a> to the Custis Trail to the W&OD. The way back, on the other hand, I never saw a marker to get back on the Custis, so I ended up riding the W&OD all the way down to Shirlington, getting a little lost as there are NO signs worth crap down there, then finally finding my way to the Four Mile Run trail and back to the Mt. Vernon and home.<\/p>\n

Wore a sleeveless jersey to try and even out some of the sun on my shoulders. So far, so good.<\/p>\n

Overall I liked the W&OD. There were a tad too many stops when you ran though areas like Vienna and Herndon, but there were also some good stretches where I was able to get down onto the aerobars<\/a> and relieve pressure on my neck. Not too many kids out, though I had one heart-attack inducing moment when I thought one little girl was going to turn out into the trail right as I came up beside her. Thankfully her mother, running behind her, intervened. I suspect that’s where my max heart rate reading came from for the ride.<\/p>\n

Have to get the center water bottle<\/a> set up for this upcoming weekend’s ride – I didn’t have quite enough water with me, which was really annoying when I was lost in Shirlington and couldn’t find my way out. Basically this just involves trimming the straw down to a height where it won’t annoy the hell out of me, but I’ve not needed it to date, so haven’t hooked it up.<\/p>\n

Probably do a repeat of this ride, only a bit further out. Pretty much ready for the Food & Friends ride<\/a> next week, just doing some last minute testing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Stretching, a shower, lots of food, a lie-down (not really a nap), more food, and I’m starting to feel human again. Four hours and about 20 minutes after I started I got home from today’s bike ride out the W&OD trail, about 62 miles. Went out to mile marker 24, which is somewhere in Loudon […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,50,27,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biking","category-charity","category-geek","category-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.countfour.org\/legalmoose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.countfour.org\/legalmoose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.countfour.org\/legalmoose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.countfour.org\/legalmoose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.countfour.org\/legalmoose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.countfour.org\/legalmoose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.countfour.org\/legalmoose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.countfour.org\/legalmoose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.countfour.org\/legalmoose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}