Today is Thanksgivings Day. A glorious day indeed. There was almost no wind to speak of and the temperature was very mild –\u00a0 in the upper 40’s when I departed for Becky and Margaret’s house for our traditional Thanksgivings Day dinner around 10:00 am this morning. They live 35.3 miles away in Thornton which is very close to where I work so I rode my commuter route most of the way and modified the last couple of miles. There were a surprising number of other cyclists out riding. I wondered how many were making their way to dinner as I was. It took me just shy of 2 hours and 15 minutes to cover the distance (ave speed of 15.8 mph, ave HR 130) and I figured although I’m sure I ate more calories than I burned on the trip, I could eat my meal guilt free as I had done my best to pay for the calories before I sat down to the table this afternoon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Today is Thanksgivings Day. A glorious day indeed. There was almost no wind to speak of and the temperature was very mild –\u00a0 in the upper 40’s when I departed for Becky and Margaret’s house for our traditional Thanksgivings Day dinner around 10:00 am this morning. They live 35.3 miles away in Thornton which is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-training_rides"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.starfirefarm.com\/ride\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.starfirefarm.com\/ride\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.starfirefarm.com\/ride\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.starfirefarm.com\/ride\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.starfirefarm.com\/ride\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.starfirefarm.com\/ride\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":300,"href":"https:\/\/www.starfirefarm.com\/ride\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136\/revisions\/300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.starfirefarm.com\/ride\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.starfirefarm.com\/ride\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.starfirefarm.com\/ride\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}