{"id":177,"date":"2015-01-17T16:11:40","date_gmt":"2015-01-18T00:11:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sweatblog.wardogcreative.com\/?p=177"},"modified":"2015-01-17T16:15:31","modified_gmt":"2015-01-18T00:15:31","slug":"hill-training-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sweatblog.wardogcreative.com\/?p=177","title":{"rendered":"Hill training begins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been months since I did any serious hills, so today&#8217;s buddy ride was a pleasant surprise.<\/p>\n<p>Clarice picked the route and it included my favorite serious hill: Old LaHonda. We started at McKenzie Park and rode directly to OLH. Despite not having climbed anything over 250&#8242; since doing Metcalf Road last MARCH, I did pretty well. According to Strava, I was less than a minute off my personal best up that road. I think losing 20 lb. really helped in that respect.<\/p>\n<p>Then, we went down West Old LaHonda and I was able to take this panorama:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sweatblog.wardogcreative.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/WestOLH_01172015.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-178 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/sweatblog.wardogcreative.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/WestOLH_01172015-300x65.jpg\" alt=\"WestOLH_01172015\" width=\"300\" height=\"65\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sweatblog.wardogcreative.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/WestOLH_01172015-300x65.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sweatblog.wardogcreative.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/WestOLH_01172015-1024x221.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sweatblog.wardogcreative.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/WestOLH_01172015-800x173.jpg 800w, https:\/\/sweatblog.wardogcreative.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/WestOLH_01172015.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After a quick trip down to Hwy 84, up that road and down the other side to Portola &#8211;&gt; Mountain Home and a rest stop at Roberts Market, Mark decided that he wasn&#8217;t fully recovered from his cold and wanted to head back to the cars. So, I joined him. Still got in a decent ride, though. My legs\u00a0will definitely be feeling the hills tomorrow!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/ridewithgps.com\/trips\/3990685\/embed\" width=\"100%\" height=\"500px\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been months since I did any serious hills, so today&#8217;s buddy ride was a pleasant surprise. Clarice picked the route and it included my favorite serious hill: Old LaHonda. We started at McKenzie Park and rode directly to OLH. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sweatblog.wardogcreative.com\/?p=177\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sweatblog.wardogcreative.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sweatblog.wardogcreative.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sweatblog.wardogcreative.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sweatblog.wardogcreative.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sweatblog.wardogcreative.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=177"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sweatblog.wardogcreative.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":181,"href":"https:\/\/sweatblog.wardogcreative.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177\/revisions\/181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sweatblog.wardogcreative.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sweatblog.wardogcreative.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sweatblog.wardogcreative.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}