{"id":1878,"date":"2024-06-26T16:09:19","date_gmt":"2024-06-26T20:09:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rfdm.com\/blog\/?p=1878"},"modified":"2024-06-26T16:09:19","modified_gmt":"2024-06-26T20:09:19","slug":"500-mile-cycling-goal-achieved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rfdm.com\/blog\/?p=1878","title":{"rendered":"500 Mile cycling goal achieved"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rfdm.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/image-4.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rfdm.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/image-4-768x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1879\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rfdm.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/image-4-768x1024.png 768w, https:\/\/www.rfdm.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/image-4-225x300.png 225w, https:\/\/www.rfdm.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/image-4-1152x1536.png 1152w, https:\/\/www.rfdm.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/image-4-1536x2048.png 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Just 9.2 miles today.  It&#8217;s kinda swampy outside.  Overcast, 76F, 84% humidity.   The dirt roads were muddy in a few spots.  Assuming it doesn&#8217;t rain again, I&#8217;ll likely go out again near sunset.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But&#8230; I met my &#8220;500 Miles by July 1&#8221; goal that I had set at the start of the season.  I wish I had kept better track of miles per day, just so I&#8217;d know how many days of riding it took to get here (and hence whether or not my new &#8220;1,000 Miles by September 1&#8221; goal is a good goal).  There have been quite a few ups and downs mileage-wise, largely weather dependent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;m going to create a trivial PHP class to track miles.  I likely won&#8217;t use it here in my blog, but elsewhere on my web site.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At any rate, I have cause for celebration.  500 miles isn&#8217;t a lot for a dedicated cyclist (which I used to be).  But for someone my age who hadn&#8217;t done much if any riding in a long time, it turned out to be a near perfect goal.  It pushed me to go out every day I could, and to tack on make-up miles when I had to skip a day, but wasn&#8217;t unrealistic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> I can thank the e-bike for making it possible to start from the bottom fitness-wise and make the rides as hard as I can handle at any given moment, and for letting me go faster and hence use the bike for errands I would normally do in my truck just due to the time it takes to do it on one of my acoustic bikes.  Some of this is of course just a function of my e-bike being a full-suspension fat-tire bike which allows higher speeds on the dirt roads which often have very rough spots.  It&#8217;s pretty terrible for cornering (slack head angle, long wheelbase), but it&#8217;s good for blasting over bad washboard and deep potholes filled with mud and water.  Not to mention not having to slow down when I need to ride a runoff-carved mess of a shoulder to let a vehicle pass me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just 9.2 miles today. It&#8217;s kinda swampy outside. Overcast, 76F, 84% humidity. The dirt roads were muddy in a few spots. Assuming it doesn&#8217;t rain again, I&#8217;ll likely go out again near sunset. But&#8230; I met my &#8220;500 Miles by July 1&#8221; goal that I had set at the start of the season. I wish &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rfdm.com\/blog\/?p=1878\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;500 Mile cycling goal achieved&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[91],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cycling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rfdm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rfdm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rfdm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rfdm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rfdm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1878"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rfdm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1880,"href":"https:\/\/www.rfdm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1878\/revisions\/1880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rfdm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rfdm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rfdm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}