{"id":1581,"date":"2010-09-21T21:23:22","date_gmt":"2010-09-22T03:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.starfirefarm.com\/ride\/?p=1581"},"modified":"2010-09-24T21:33:41","modified_gmt":"2010-09-25T03:33:41","slug":"short-and-sweet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.starfirefarm.com\/ride\/2010\/09\/21\/short-and-sweet\/","title":{"rendered":"Short and Sweet"},"content":{"rendered":"

Garmin Data: http:\/\/connect.garmin.com\/activity\/50366140<\/a><\/p>\n

Believe me, I know first hand just how short the days are getting. I raced home today so that I could squeeze in a bike ride before the sun disappeared behind the foothills. I left work at 5:00 pm thinking that if I could get out a few minutes after 6:00 pm then I could get a good hour of riding in. Well, things never go as quickly as I would like. The drive home to a tad longer than is optimal and then it took a bit longer to change and get ready to roll. I called Sara and invited her to join me —\u00a0 she was game. By the time I left the house and met up with Sara it was 6:17 pm and my Garmin said that sunset was at 7:01 pm. UGH! We raced off. Probably faster than we should have. We should have made time for at least a 5-10 minute warm-up. Nope. Both of us felt the pressure of time. We literally raced off and hammered for all we were worth to do what — beat the sunset? Believe it or not, that’s what we were doing. We only got about 4 miles out before the sun sank and the sky started to darken and take on an orange glow. Even with red-blinky-lights and Scooter’s headlight, our desire to live to ride another day won out and we turned around and headed home with the same intensity. We rode 8 miles in about 25 minutes. We slowed down quite a bit after we turned onto our “home stretch”\u00a0 as an attempt at a cool-down. Not that it made up for having no warm-up. Sara and I agreed that getting out for a short ride was better than not getting out at all — and we really did make the most of the time we had.<\/p>\n

Can’t wait for the days to start getting longer again. Geesh, that’s quite a ways off though, isn’t it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Garmin Data: http:\/\/connect.garmin.com\/activity\/50366140 Believe me, I know first hand just how short the days are getting. I raced home today so that I could squeeze in a bike ride before the sun disappeared behind the foothills. I left work at 5:00 pm thinking that if I could get out a few minutes after 6:00 pm […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.starfirefarm.com\/ride\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1581","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=1581"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.starfirefarm.com\/ride\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1582,"href":"https:\/\/www.starfirefarm.com\/ride\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1581\/revisions\/1582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.starfirefarm.com\/ride\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.starfirefarm.com\/ride\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.starfirefarm.com\/ride\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}