{"id":1794,"date":"2010-12-29T13:58:30","date_gmt":"2010-12-29T20:58:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.starfirefarm.com\/ride\/?p=1794"},"modified":"2010-12-29T13:58:30","modified_gmt":"2010-12-29T20:58:30","slug":"change-is-in-the-air","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.starfirefarm.com\/ride\/2010\/12\/29\/change-is-in-the-air\/","title":{"rendered":"Change is in the Air"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>Just in case my co-worker Kurt in Illinois can’t get out to ride on Friday, I wanted to set the mark as late in the year as possible.\u00a0 Tomorrow and Friday don’t look very promising\u00a0 — high of 17 degrees on Friday. Brrrrr. But, if I think Kurt is out there riding, I may just have to bundle up an give it a go. If I go 10 miles or 1 hour (whichever comes first…) I call it a ride! In 17 degrees that could be quite a ride.<\/p>\n

It is very grey today – \u00a0by Colorado standards. There are thin high clouds as well as some lower fluffier ones. There are even a few patches of blue somewhere behind all those clouds but I only caught glimpses of it as I rode. Sun glare was NOT a problem today.\u00a0 There were a few other riders out, but not in the numbers that I saw when I was out with either Dave or Sara recently. Everyone was in layers with face masks and long gloves. I was wearing my bonifide winter riding gear. I had on 4 layers up top, my winter Pearlizumi long tights over 2 pair of shorts (felt just a tag bulky), my winter gloves (a thinner inner glove and a wind\/waterproof outer one), a medium weight Peralizumi balaclava and, of course, my winter riding shoes complete with Sugoi wind\/rain covers.\u00a0 I thought I might be too warm — but as I rode north into a breeze it was just right. I wasn’t cold once I got going and I wasn’t sweating. I just spun along enjoying the day. I toyed with the idea of extending my ride — that’s how nice it was. But, with lots of other stuff to do today (like clear out a spot in our garage for my car so it doesn’t have to sit out in the impending storm!) I decided that the Rez loop would be enough.<\/p>\n

Now, another topic that floated around in my head while I spun along was how to prove that I rode today — in case this is a candidate for the latest ride of the year “award.” I thought, I could show the date on my photos — but that wasn’t any good. Clearly I could pick any date I wanted, in which case I would have set it to Dec 31st, not Dec 29th. Heck, may as well make it as late in the year as possible, right? Then,\u00a0 I rode up along\u00a0the answer. A newspaper box! So, here is the Longmont, Colorado Daily Call from today… with me and Scooter in front of it!<\/p>\n

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I came upon this festive fence and knew Scooter would look great with this in the background. While I was futsing around with the camera and getting that “perfect” shot — a cyclist whizzzzzed by us. UGH! I hustled back on the bike and took off to see how fast that rabbit really was. I certainly didn’t lose any ground and seemed to be catching up pretty quickly (we were going about 25 mph) when I got to my turnoff. The rabbit kept going north and never knew I had taken chase. Just the way I like it.<\/p>\n

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Apparently there is a walking path around the Rez. I snapped a picture of these hikers so you could see that it wasn’t balmy out, but neither was it frigid. I was cold enough that I had to deal with a running nose, but at least I could feel it!<\/p>\n

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Got a great shot of Scooter with the mountains in the background. Took me a few minutes to figure out how to get him to stand up. Check out the use of the water bottle against his inside pedal! Worked like a charm. It helped that the ground was sloped (otherwise, I don’t think it would have worked so well)<\/p>\n

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Just in case my co-worker Kurt in Illinois can’t get out to ride on Friday, I wanted to set the mark as late in the year as possible.\u00a0 Tomorrow and Friday don’t look very promising\u00a0 — high of 17 degrees on Friday. Brrrrr. But, if I think Kurt is out there riding, I may just […]<\/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-1794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.starfirefarm.com\/ride\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1794","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=1794"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.starfirefarm.com\/ride\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1804,"href":"https:\/\/www.starfirefarm.com\/ride\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1794\/revisions\/1804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.starfirefarm.com\/ride\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.starfirefarm.com\/ride\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.starfirefarm.com\/ride\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}