{"id":8724,"date":"2010-02-18T07:20:14","date_gmt":"2010-02-18T12:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=8724"},"modified":"2010-02-18T07:20:14","modified_gmt":"2010-02-18T12:20:14","slug":"an-acheing-in-my-heart-legs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=8724","title":{"rendered":"An Acheing In My Heart<\/strike> Legs"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s a strange time of year in Minnesota, weather-wise.\u00a0 There’s enough sun high enough in the sky\u00a0 to warm things up pretty well during the mid-day.\u00a0 But there’s enough snow cover to reflect all that sunlight back into space, so nights still get pretty chilly – and it’s still a bit brisk when we get ready for work in the morning.<\/p>\n

So for the next ten days or so we’ll be having<\/a> highs pushing 30 during the day, but lows in the single-digits to barely over ten.<\/p>\n

Which means that in the afternoon, I’m overwhelmed with the desire to start biking – and get bludgeoned in the morning by the idea that it’s probably be a really dumb idea for the time being.<\/p>\n

That, and the roads in Saint Paul are atrocious this year.\u00a0 The city got behind the eight ball from the beginning; the Christmas ice\/snow storm left most of the side streets as rutted and filling-jarring as andean goat paths.<\/p>\n

Anyway.\u00a0 Soon.\u00a0 The goal for the year is to be back on the road by mid-March, to make up for the lousy biking last year, when a family commitment left me driving around the metro every morning all summer.\u00a0 While I did manage to bike a bit from September through November, and even squoze in a ride in early December, I never really got a rhythm going.\u00a0 The other goal?\u00a0 Get somewhere close to my 100-mile-a-week pace from 2008.<\/p>\n

As soon as these freakin’ mornings warm up.<\/p>\n

(NOTE:\u00a0 While this blog’s policy is to generally leave comments alone, all anti-biking comments will be mutilated for my own febrile amusement.\u00a0 There will be no further warnings).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s a strange time of year in Minnesota, weather-wise.\u00a0 There’s enough sun high enough in the sky\u00a0 to warm things up pretty well during the mid-day.\u00a0 But there’s enough snow cover to reflect all that sunlight back into space, so nights still get pretty chilly – and it’s still a bit brisk when we get […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8724"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8725,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8724\/revisions\/8725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}