Today was a red letter day for me in my nascent cycling career – I hit the 122 mile mark for the week starting last Monday (the 21st). It’s great – my average speed is slowly climbing (to around 13 mph) and now a 30 mile day feels like a 10 mile day felt back in April or May. My next goal? I’m hoping to ride from Sunriver up to Mt. Bachelor and back on the orchestra’s day off. I’ll keep you posted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Today was a red letter day for me in my nascent cycling career – I hit the 122 mile mark for the week starting last Monday (the 21st). It’s great – my average speed is slowly climbing (to around 13 mph) and now a 30 mile day feels like a 10 mile day felt back […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":303,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cycling"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa8kC-gR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1121,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2008\/09\/12\/a-milestone\/","url_meta":{"origin":1045,"position":0},"title":"a milestone","author":"Charles Noble","date":"September 12, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"I'm just about one ride of 22 miles away to reach the 1000 mile mark for my riding in 2008.\u00c2\u00a0 My hope is that in 2009 I will double that to 2000 miles.\u00c2\u00a0 And my butt doesn't hurt too bad, either!","rel":"","context":"In "cycling"","block_context":{"text":"cycling","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/category\/cycling\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/noble_sig.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":2107,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2009\/03\/10\/big-ride\/","url_meta":{"origin":1045,"position":1},"title":"big ride","author":"Charles Noble","date":"March 10, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Today I looked through the excellent \"Rubber to the Road\" book of local cycling routes, and decided to try a new, and slightly ambitious route.\u00c2\u00a0 It's known as the Iowa Hill Ride - and though the hill in question is only about a mile or so in length, it is\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "cycling"","block_context":{"text":"cycling","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/category\/cycling\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"rtotheroad","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/rtotheroad-200x309.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":3155,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2009\/09\/25\/latte-art-update\/","url_meta":{"origin":1045,"position":2},"title":"latte art update","author":"Charles Noble","date":"September 25, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"In a change of pace from recent posts, here's a\u00a0 recent photo of some latte art that I've done.\u00a0 Doing a different kind of rosette these days, and getting a bit better at it... 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