{"id":1107,"date":"2007-10-13T19:14:17","date_gmt":"2007-10-14T00:14:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alevin.com\/?p=1107"},"modified":"2007-10-13T19:14:17","modified_gmt":"2007-10-14T00:14:17","slug":"tour-de-menlo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/?p=1107","title":{"rendered":"Tour de Menlo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, I&#8217;m signed up for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tourdemenlo.com\/frame.html\">Tour de Menlo<\/a>, and I&#8217;m a little nervous about it. I&#8217;m planning to do the &#8220;tame&#8221; 30 mile route, not the 50 mile killer-hill route.   Pluses:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Local community races are fun (have been to many 10K running races, this is the first bike race I&#8217;ve been to).\n<li> I know I can do the route: I biked a superset of it last weekend.  <\/ul>\n<p> Minus: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Maybe I&#8217;ll be the slowest person on the course.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>   I ride on some popular routes in the area, and oodles of people pass me. The worst case scenario is that it&#8217;s a fun ride on a beautiful day, I get a t-shirt. Not so bad.<br \/>\nUpdate: I finished the race, climbed the biggest hill without walking (but did stop a few times), got to the rest stop and finish before they closed, and got the t-shirt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, I&#8217;m signed up for the Tour de Menlo, and I&#8217;m a little nervous about it. I&#8217;m planning to do the &#8220;tame&#8221; 30 mile route, not the 50 mile killer-hill route. Pluses: Local community races are fun (have been to many 10K running races, this is the first bike race I&#8217;ve been to). I know &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/?p=1107\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Tour de Menlo&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bay-area"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prDRq-hR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}