{"id":224,"date":"2015-04-07T10:14:05","date_gmt":"2015-04-07T14:14:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/weareogre.com\/main\/?p=224"},"modified":"2015-04-07T10:14:05","modified_gmt":"2015-04-07T14:14:05","slug":"first-long-ride-of-the-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/weareogre.com\/main\/2015\/04\/07\/first-long-ride-of-the-season\/","title":{"rendered":"First Long Ride of the Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the chaos that is the life of a parent, sometimes finding the time to get a couple of good long rides in to start the season is incredibly challenging. Last weekend I managed to a 40 mile ride at a slow pace, followed up with a short brick. It was a challenge. It ended up taking a vacation and being a travelling circus to get a solid 90 miles in. IT was a good 90 though. Strangely, this was the longest ride I had done on an aero bike. I have ridden centuries in the past, but always on my road bike. Needless to say there where some lessons learned.<\/p>\n<h2>Lessons Learned<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Aero is a huge advantage in stiff headwinds<\/li>\n<li>Aero bikes, even with standard wheels get pushed around a lot in crosswinds<\/li>\n<li>Racing Mopeds, while fun, is not a good idea at mile 40, 44, 51, or 63 of a 90<\/li>\n<li>Sand. Is. Evil.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That said, it was a wonderful ride. 5 hours in the sunshine, parallel to the beach, really is a great way to break back into the long days. Admittedly, the 3 miles run off that bike wasn&#8217;t all that fun. But that is why we do this right?  to get better, and make these easier?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the chaos that is the life of a parent, sometimes finding the time to get a couple of good long rides in to start the season is incredibly challenging. Last weekend I managed to a 40 mile ride at a slow pace, followed up with a short brick. It was a challenge. It ended [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12,18,21],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/weareogre.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/weareogre.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/weareogre.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/weareogre.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/weareogre.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/weareogre.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":226,"href":"http:\/\/weareogre.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224\/revisions\/226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/weareogre.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/weareogre.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/weareogre.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}