{"id":1874,"date":"2011-02-13T21:04:25","date_gmt":"2011-02-14T04:04:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.starfirefarm.com\/ride\/?p=1874"},"modified":"2011-02-19T21:34:15","modified_gmt":"2011-02-20T04:34:15","slug":"first-aborted-ride-on-scooter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.starfirefarm.com\/ride\/2011\/02\/13\/first-aborted-ride-on-scooter\/","title":{"rendered":"First Aborted Ride on Scooter!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Garmin Data: http:\/\/connect.garmin.com\/activity\/69085715<\/a><\/p>\n

When we left the farm at 9:30am, I knew that we were in a race against an impending wind. But, I had no idea that it would overtake us so quickly! It was fairly calm as I rode south down our street and it wasn’t until I was 3-4 miles from home that the wind made a signficant appearance. Even then, I thought it was just a stiff breeze and would either stay as a breeze or diminish. I was dead wrong! Within the next couple of miles, the winds whipped up something fierce. Suddenly I could hear the wind whistling through the trees and Scooter and I were getting buffeted about. Winds whipped snow and sand up out of the stream bed and carried it across the street in front of me.<\/p>\n

But, I expected it to pass. Instead, it got steadily stronger. The gusts were more violent and Scooter was now being shoved several feet into the road. Luckily we were on a quiet country road at the time. For the first time in I can’t remember how long, I felt as if I could actually get blown over. As I leaned Scooter into the wind, I felt as if his wheels might be swept right out from under me.\u00a0It was around this time that I unclipped and put down a foot a couple of times to wait out a gust. I gave it another mile or so and then decided that the wind was NOT going to go away and that it was unsafe for me and Scooter to continue. I pulled over to the side of the road and called Beth. She and the whippets agreed to come rescue me and take me the rest of the way into work.<\/p>\n

While I waited for my rescue, I took out my wind\/temperature meter and snapped a few shots. I saw wind speeds in the low 30 mph range. Mostly they were 20-30 mph. I know Colorado can experience much stronger winds, but as I found out today, when you are on a bike, a 30 mph cross wind can really get your attention!<\/p>\n

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As we drove the route I had planned to ride, I was glad I decided to bail. It was VERY windy.\u00a0 The rest of the week is supposed to be warm. I’ll be looking to see if there is a warm day where the wind is not quite this strong! I might try another commute… so far, Wednesday morning looks like a good possibility.<\/p>\n

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At least the winds make for pretty flag pictures!<\/p>\n

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Garmin Data: http:\/\/connect.garmin.com\/activity\/69085715 When we left the farm at 9:30am, I knew that we were in a race against an impending wind. But, I had no idea that it would overtake us so quickly! It was fairly calm as I rode south down our street and it wasn’t until I was 3-4 miles from home […]<\/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-1874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.starfirefarm.com\/ride\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1874","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=1874"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.starfirefarm.com\/ride\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1926,"href":"https:\/\/www.starfirefarm.com\/ride\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1874\/revisions\/1926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.starfirefarm.com\/ride\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.starfirefarm.com\/ride\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.starfirefarm.com\/ride\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}