{"id":19,"date":"2015-06-23T23:12:07","date_gmt":"2015-06-23T23:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.expatbrit.org\/blog\/?p=19"},"modified":"2024-06-30T11:55:23","modified_gmt":"2024-06-30T17:55:23","slug":"santa-fe-century-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.expatbrit.org\/blog\/?p=19","title":{"rendered":"Santa Fe Century (and more)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pictures from my brother&#8217;s visit:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.expatbrit.org\/pictures\/index.php?\/category\/417\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">John&#8217;s visit<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.expatbrit.org\/pictures\/_data\/i\/upload\/2015\/06\/15\/20150615134420-8956847f-me.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"792\" height=\"445\" \/>First time John had been to the US in almost 20 years; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.expatbrit.org\/pictures\/picture.php?\/10894\/category\/417\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">first time he&#8217;d done a century<\/a>; first time riding at altitude. \u00a0H<a href=\"http:\/\/www.expatbrit.org\/pictures\/picture.php?\/10834\/category\/417\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">e needs more sunscreen<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Some of the lessons: don&#8217;t hike much of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.expatbrit.org\/pictures\/picture.php?\/10855\/category\/417\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Grand Canyon<\/a> 2 days before a century ride. It&#8217;s bad for your legs. Also, it makes John <a href=\"http:\/\/www.expatbrit.org\/pictures\/picture.php?\/10882\/category\/417\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">HUNGRY<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.expatbrit.org\/pictures\/picture.php?\/10836\/category\/417\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WR250X<\/a> is a decent learner bike, even with a quarter turn throttle. It&#8217;s less good as a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.expatbrit.org\/pictures\/picture.php?\/10904\/category\/417\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">two-up bike<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>Pictures speak for themselves, mostly. Really nice trip!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pictures from my brother&#8217;s visit:\u00a0John&#8217;s visit &nbsp; First time John had been to the US in almost 20 years; first time he&#8217;d done a century; first time riding at altitude. \u00a0He needs more sunscreen&#8230; Some of the lessons: don&#8217;t hike<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.expatbrit.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.expatbrit.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.expatbrit.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.expatbrit.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.expatbrit.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.expatbrit.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":185,"href":"https:\/\/www.expatbrit.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions\/185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.expatbrit.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.expatbrit.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.expatbrit.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}