{"id":276,"date":"2005-06-05T19:03:00","date_gmt":"2005-06-06T00:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/uncategorised\/becel-ride-for-heart-2005.html"},"modified":"2006-10-15T18:48:01","modified_gmt":"2006-10-15T23:48:01","slug":"becel-ride-for-heart-2005","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/meta\/becel-ride-for-heart-2005.html","title":{"rendered":"2005 Becel Ride for Heart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This morning I finished the <a href=\"http:\/\/ww2.heartandstroke.ca\/Page.asp?PageID=1366&#038;ArticleID=3842\" title=\"Toronto Becel Ride for Heart\">Becel Ride for Heart<\/a> for the third year in a row. After <a href=\"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/meta\/person\/becel_ride_for_heart_2003.html\" title=\"2003 Becel Ride for Heart\">my first ride in 2003<\/a>, I vowed to ride the 75km leg, but never followed through with that promise until this year, and only as a last minute decision.<\/p>\n<p>Having never rode 75km before, I think I did fairly well. My time was just over two and a half hours, which isn&#8217;t bad considering that I haven&#8217;t ridden much this year, that the 75km repeats the most difficult part of the 50km leg, and that the smog levels on this hazy day affected my breathing. However, that&#8217;s still not a great time considering <a href=\"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/meta\/person\/becel-ride-for-heart-2004.html\" title=\"2004 Becel Ride for Heart\">last year&#8217;s time of 90 minutes for 50km<\/a>. Still, even after 50km I managed to pass pretty much everyone I saw, even those I passed the first time up the DVP.<\/p>\n<p>Aside from the heat and smog, my biggest drawbacks were that I stopped for water before the 75km turnoff, thereby losing my momentum, and ran out of water about 20 minutes from the finish line. Next year, I think a camel pack is in order.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning I finished the <a href=\"http:\/\/ww2.heartandstroke.ca\/Page.asp?PageID=1366&#038;ArticleID=3842\" title=\"Toronto Becel Ride for Heart\">Becel Ride for Heart<\/a> for the third year in a row. After <a href=\"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/meta\/person\/becel_ride_for_heart_2003.html\" title=\"2003 Becel Ride for Heart\">my first ride in 2003<\/a>, I vowed to ride the 75km leg, but never followed through with that promise until this year, and only as a&nbsp;&hellip;&nbsp;<a class=\"read_more\" href=\"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/meta\/becel-ride-for-heart-2005.html\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Continue reading &ldquo;2005 Becel Ride for Heart&rdquo;\"><span>Read more<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[16,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}