{"id":17070,"date":"2013-02-02T14:33:30","date_gmt":"2013-02-02T19:33:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/?p=17070"},"modified":"2013-03-19T14:46:37","modified_gmt":"2013-03-19T18:46:37","slug":"2013-lohs-winter-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2013\/02\/02\/2013-lohs-winter-race\/","title":{"rendered":"2013 LOHS Winter Race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/gallery\/v\/travel\/local_places\/biking\/DSCF0027.jpg.html?g2_imageViewsIndex=2\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/gallery\/d\/103404-2\/DSCF0027.jpg\" height=480 width=640 border=0 title=\"Lining up at the start of the 2013 Lake Orion 6th Annual Winter Race.\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This morning I took part in the sixth annual Lake Orion High School Winter Race; a cross country (XC) race around the school&#8217;s grounds and mountain bike trails. The trail conditions were perfect for all kinds of bikes, and my fatbike definitely wasn&#8217;t necessary. It sure didn&#8217;t hurt, though, and made for a fun ride. Per usual I didn&#8217;t have to brake much, as the increased rolling resistance (the front tire is 4 PSI, rear was 6 PSI) allowed me to stop pedaling before most corners, roll through, then keep going.<\/p>\n<p>Being the only person on a fatbike I won the Fatbike category by default. Had I raced in my appropriate Sport class I would have taken third out of four. (Official results <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scribd.com\/doc\/123525187\/LOHS-2013-Winter-MTB-Results\">here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>I really liked the route, as it avoided many of the hard\/slick climbs that can be found on the school grounds and instead opted for a nice rolling route. My only complaint would be the overall length of the race, as doing three laps I was only riding for ~46 minutes. I think we could easily have gone to four or five laps and still been sane for a winter race.<\/p>\n<p>GPS data of my ride today can found <a href=\"http:\/\/app.strava.com\/activities\/39503881\">here on Strava<\/a>. It seems that for the last third my HRM acted up again, radically under-recording things.<\/p>\n<p>On the way home I noticed that there is now a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greatlakescoffee.com\/\">Great Lakes Coffee<\/a> location along M-24 \/ Lapeer Rd. and stopped for some coffee. It seems to be almost colocated with a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kensingtonchurch.org\/\">Kensington Church<\/a> location so I braced myself for a bit of proselytizing, but I was pleasantly surprised to instead encounter some nice folks who made me a good cup of coffee.<\/p>\n<p>The photo above is one of the first actual-use images taken with my new camera, a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fujifilm.com\/products\/digital_cameras\/xp\/finepix_xp50\/\">Fujifilm FinePix XP50<\/a> ruggedized camera. I bought this to replace my aging <a href=\"http:\/\/www.olympusamerica.com\/cpg_section\/cpg_archived_product_details.asp?id=1365\">Olympus Stylus 850SW<\/a> as my carry-everywhere camera. The Olympus served me very well, but I was wanting something with better low light performance, a more capable movie mode, and SD cards. Finding a good deal on the XP50 I figured I&#8217;d give it a go. Its ~20g heavier than the Olympus and lacks the nice auto-retracting metal cover for the primary lens, but I think it&#8217;ll work out well. I&#8217;ll know for sure at the end of summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning I took part in the sixth annual Lake Orion High School Winter Race; a cross country (XC) race around the school&#8217;s grounds and&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2013\/02\/02\/2013-lohs-winter-race\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">2013 LOHS Winter Race<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,10,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-acquired-things","category-cycling","category-electronics","entry"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17070"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17259,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17070\/revisions\/17259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}