{"id":1344,"date":"2007-04-21T17:55:53","date_gmt":"2007-04-21T17:55:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2007\/04\/21\/bicycling-report\/"},"modified":"2007-04-21T17:55:53","modified_gmt":"2007-04-21T17:55:53","slug":"bicycling-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2007\/04\/21\/bicycling-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Bicycling Report"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of my Christmas presents was a small mileage\/ speed calculator for my bike, because there are few activities that can’t be improved by making them nerdier. Thus, I am able to report on today’s ride:<\/p>\n

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Total Distance: 17.1 miles
\nMaximum Speed: 23.5 mph
\nAverage speed: 13.4 mph<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I’m actually a little surprised by the distance– the bike path route to Lock 8 is longer than I thought. I checked the calibration against the posted mile markers, though, and while the readout is a little high, it’s only off by about 6% (the above numbers are corrected figures).<\/p>\n

Why am I posting this? Well, why not? Also, I think it might be amusing to keep a running total of how far I ride over the course of the year. And it will also make me more likely to keep riding on a regular basis, just from pointless machismo…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of my Christmas presents was a small mileage\/ speed calculator for my bike, because there are few activities that can’t be improved by making them nerdier. Thus, I am able to report on today’s ride: Total Distance: 17.1 miles Maximum Speed: 23.5 mph Average speed: 13.4 mph I’m actually a little surprised by the… Continue reading Bicycling Report<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biking","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1344\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}