{"id":2372,"date":"2010-02-07T09:12:48","date_gmt":"2010-02-07T14:12:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/?p=2372"},"modified":"2010-02-11T23:38:39","modified_gmt":"2010-02-12T04:38:39","slug":"dragon-gap-winter-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2010\/02\/07\/dragon-gap-winter-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Dragon GAP Winter Race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><\/p>\n<table cellpadding=1>\n<tr>\n<td bgcolor=\"black\"><object width=\"640\" height=\"385\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/mYC0G2EXY-c&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/mYC0G2EXY-c&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"640\" height=\"385\"><\/embed><\/object><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Yesterday was the third annual <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lakeorion.k12.mi.us\/lohs\/gap\/index.html\">Lake Orion High School Guided Activities Program<\/a> winter race. The sunny, cold weather was perfect for riding in the woods with all of the riding going well, except for the first extremely steep hill.<\/p>\n<p>The first time I went down said hill I went a bit too fast, overshot the trail, and ended up running perpendicular into a ditch. This bottomed out my fork, dropped the chain to the outside of the cranks, twisted the bar a bit to the right, and rotated my left <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ergon-bike.com\/us\/en\/home\">Ergon grip<\/a> down a good ways. Somehow I didn&#8217;t get hurt, so I was able to continue riding after getting some tools out and straightening the bar. My shoulder is very minorly sore this morning, but that could also be from sleeping oddly.<\/p>\n<p>Being a few minutes behind everyone else I now had a quiet, uneventful, ride alone through the woods, save for occasionally passing some of the kids slower folks. I don&#8217;t think I came in last, though, as two thirds of the way through the second of my two laps I passed someone who I believe was in my same category. That likely puts me at second to last.<\/p>\n<p>The video of the race above is made by a local guy named Matt (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/mattmtb1\">mattmtb1<\/a> on YouTube) who is known for filming local races and events then doing an outstanding job putting together short, entertaining videos of them. I actually made it in at 2:00, where I&#8217;m shown turning up a steep corner with my studded rear wheel scraping audibly at the ice.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s also <a href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/gallery\/v\/travel\/local_places\/biking\/lohs_winter_2010_trails_edge_bob_steve_bill_joe.jpg.html\">this photo<\/a> of the four of us from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trailsedgeracing.com\/\">Trail&#8217;s Edge Racing<\/a> who participated: Bob Costello, (Me) Steve Vigneau, Bill Edgerton, Joe Siedl. Marty took this photo and posted it to Facebook, but due to the sillyness involved in linking directly to Facebook content I rehosted it.<\/p>\n<p>Danielle came to watch and brought <a href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/gallery\/v\/family\/roxie\/\">Roxie<\/a> along with her. Both kids and adults loved having her there, and she loved being the center of attention. A number of people, including the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cannondalemidwest.com\/\">Cannondale Midwest Racing<\/a> folks, were taking photos and\/or video of her, so hopefully those will surface online soon.<\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=dzK1MDIQQvI\">Here<\/a> is another video of the race from YouTube.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday was the third annual Lake Orion High School Guided Activities Program winter race. The sunny, cold weather was perfect for riding in the woods&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2010\/02\/07\/dragon-gap-winter-race\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Dragon GAP 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":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cycling","entry"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2372","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=2372"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2383,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2372\/revisions\/2383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}