{"id":206,"date":"2011-03-31T22:17:14","date_gmt":"2011-04-01T04:17:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brucearmstrong.net\/?p=206"},"modified":"2011-03-31T23:26:08","modified_gmt":"2011-04-01T05:26:08","slug":"cycling-is-my-new-hobby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucearmstrong.net\/?p=206","title":{"rendered":"Cycling is My New Hobby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brucearmstrong.net\/gallery\/v\/misc\/2011-03-31+23_08_05.jpg.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.brucearmstrong.net\/gallery\/d\/166915-2\/2011-03-31+23_08_05.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>For years and years, I&#8217;ve wanted to get a bicycle. Finally, just over a month ago, I did. I got a pretty basic hybrid called the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diamondback.com\/bikes\/hybrid\/2009-hybrids\/edgewood-09\/\">Diamondback Edgewood<\/a>. Each weekend, I&#8217;ve done a progressively longer ride. First 17 miles, then 22, 28, and finally <a href=\"http:\/\/www.endomondo.com\/workouts\/uZ69lbnhUc8\">32 miles on Sunday<\/a>. I&#8217;m doing other rides during the week when I can find the time. I&#8217;ve got one route that&#8217;s about 12 miles that I&#8217;ve been trying to beat 1 hour on. Seems easy, but there are some wicked hills to contend with. In flat-as-a-pancake North Texas? You&#8217;d be surprised.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been using my Android phone and a separate bluetooth GPS unit to track my rides. Originally I was using <a href=\"http:\/\/mytracks.appspot.com\/\">Google My Tracks<\/a>, but recently, I discovered the <a href=\"https:\/\/market.android.com\/details?id=com.endomondo.android.pro\">Endomondo app<\/a> and I&#8217;m quite liking it. The app tracks your time, distance, and calories burned. The app also uses speech synthesis to announce your time at each mile, which I&#8217;ve found surprisingly motivating. Surely, I should be doing 4-minute miles on a bike! The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.endomondo.com\/workouts\/user\/1067332\">endomondo.com website<\/a> also provides interesting stats and shows weekly and monthly views of your workouts. I also imported all my previously tracked rides so far and you can see them <a href=\"http:\/\/www.endomondo.com\/workouts\/user\/1067332\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Today I signed up for my first official event: The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.headforthehillsrally.com\/\">Head for the Hills Bike Rally<\/a> in Cedar Hill, TX on May 7th. I signed up for the 40 mile route. I don&#8217;t quite have the guts to take on a 60 mile route just yet. We&#8217;ll see how things go. Check back here or on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/brucedarmstrong\">Facebook<\/a> to see how I do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For years and years, I&#8217;ve wanted to get a bicycle. Finally, just over a month ago, I did. I got a pretty basic hybrid called the Diamondback Edgewood. Each weekend, I&#8217;ve done a progressively longer ride. First 17 miles, then 22, 28, and finally 32 miles on Sunday. I&#8217;m doing other rides during the week [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bruce","category-cycling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucearmstrong.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucearmstrong.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucearmstrong.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucearmstrong.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucearmstrong.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brucearmstrong.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucearmstrong.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucearmstrong.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucearmstrong.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}