{"id":309,"date":"2007-04-16T15:33:09","date_gmt":"2007-04-16T23:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kateandryan.net\/?p=309"},"modified":"2007-04-16T15:33:09","modified_gmt":"2007-04-16T23:33:09","slug":"first-ride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kateandryan.net\/?p=309","title":{"rendered":"First Ride"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Years ago I had a bike.  Not the greatest bike, just an inexpensive bike from a department store.  I actually went through a couple of those bikes but they helped me get around during college.  After several years now of not having I bike I decided I wanted to get back into shape and ride bikes more.  Although not prepared to spend a whole lot I did find an affordable &#8212; folding &#8212; bike at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.citizenbike.com\">citizenbike.com<\/a>.  The bike arrived today!<br \/>\n[thumb:538:l][thumb:539:l][thumb:540:l][newline]<br \/>\nAfter unfolding and checking the tires I took a quick spin around the streets nearby before heading off to the library.  I wanted to check out the new trails nearby.  I thought I could do a route sticking to the trails that would loop around to the library.  Unfortunately they haven&#8217;t actually completed the entire trail connection yet.<br \/>\n[thumb:541:c][newline]<br \/>\nI was already feeling my muscles complain about the unaccustomed activity so I turned around, back-tracked and went a different route.  After the quick stop at the library I headed home by the short route.  Altogether the first ride ended up being 00:49:58 according to my stopwatch.  The whole distance was a little over four miles, I think.  I have a bicycle computer ordered so that should give me better figures once it arrives.  In the meantime I&#8217;ll have to get used to riding a bike again.  My muscles and my seat are all feeling the exercise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Years ago I had a bike. Not the greatest bike, just an inexpensive bike from a department store. I actually went through a couple of those bikes but they helped me get around during college. After several years now of not having I bike I decided I wanted to get back into shape and ride [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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}},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cycling","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Xt8g-4Z","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kateandryan.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kateandryan.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kateandryan.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateandryan.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateandryan.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateandryan.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kateandryan.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateandryan.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateandryan.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}