{"id":426,"date":"2006-07-17T09:47:47","date_gmt":"2006-07-17T14:47:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/wordpress\/?p=426"},"modified":"2006-07-17T09:47:47","modified_gmt":"2006-07-17T14:47:47","slug":"highs-and-lowsand-highsand-lows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/2006\/07\/17\/highs-and-lowsand-highsand-lows\/","title":{"rendered":"Highs and lows…and highs…and lows…."},"content":{"rendered":"

As regular readers know (if there are any out there), I was hoping for good weather this past weekend for a bike ride I’d been planning on for months.\u00c2\u00a0 Well, I got what I wanted, sort of.\u00c2\u00a0 Saturday morning broke clear, a little breezy, and HOT<\/strong><\/em>.\u00c2\u00a0 Really hot.\u00c2\u00a0 Like, stay-inside-and-close-all-the-shades hot.\u00c2\u00a0 But I’ve never been one to let the prospect of heat stroke get in the way of a good time.<\/p>\n

And a good time it was.\u00c2\u00a0 My brother-in-law Kevin was down from Madison for the ride, and he brought along a case of delicious New Glarus Edel Pils.\u00c2\u00a0 About 11:30 we were joined at the house by friends Lisa and Cabel, who were atop their tandem and looked ready to conquer the world.\u00c2\u00a0 We biked down to the ride’s starting point and met the rest of our group.\u00c2\u00a0 After we got registered and drank a couple beers to strengthen our resolve, we set off for the first beer stop 10 miles away in North Liberty.\u00c2\u00a0 We refueled there and then biked another 10 miles to the last beer stop on the road, which was a mere eight miles from the ride’s end.\u00c2\u00a0 We managed to stay at this last stop for quite a bit, just drinking water and beer and lounging in the shade.<\/p>\n

At the end of the ride, we sat under nice green hops vines at the Millstream Brewery and enjoyed some bratwurst (with a couple more beers and more water).\u00c2\u00a0 I won a pair of biking socks in the drawing, and everyone appeared to head home happy.\u00c2\u00a0 The cool news from the ride is that they had more than twice as many people sign up this year as they had last year.\u00c2\u00a0 Last year, attendance had nearly doubled from the previous year, so this ride is really up and coming.\u00c2\u00a0 It can’t be this hot again next year…can it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As regular readers know (if there are any out there), I was hoping for good weather this past weekend for a bike ride I’d been planning on for months.\u00c2\u00a0 Well, I got what I wanted, sort of.\u00c2\u00a0 Saturday morning broke clear, a little breezy, and HOT.\u00c2\u00a0 Really hot.\u00c2\u00a0 Like, stay-inside-and-close-all-the-shades hot.\u00c2\u00a0 But I’ve never been […]<\/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","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-outdoors"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9oLlO-6S","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}