{"id":72,"date":"2008-06-11T21:55:40","date_gmt":"2008-06-12T01:55:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/?p=72"},"modified":"2008-06-11T21:55:40","modified_gmt":"2008-06-12T01:55:40","slug":"stinky-dirty-and-happy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2008\/06\/11\/stinky-dirty-and-happy\/","title":{"rendered":"Stinky, Dirty, and Happy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><\/p>\n<table cellpadding=1>\n<tr>\n<td bgcolor=\"black\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/gallery\/v\/moblog\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/gallery\/d\/74541-1\/Image_661__001.jpg\" height=480 width=640 border=0 alt=\"One of the teeter totters in the still-under-construction skill park area of the Stony Creek Mountain Bike Trails. This is being built by the Michigan Mountain Bike Association (MMBA).\"><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I currently smell bad, mud is stuck to every major part of my body, and I feel very content. I&#8217;m also amazed at just how much water the skin on my head can wick from the rest of my body, only to sweat it out. (Yes, I have a big head and it is really oily and sweats a whole lot.)<\/p>\n<p>Tonight my brother-in-law Craig and I met up at the Stony Creek mountain bike trails, as he&#8217;d just acquired a new-to-him bike and we wanted to do some riding. Not far into the trail we happened to run into the folks who were doing the regular <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mmba.org\/viewtopic.php?t=8806\">Wednesday Night MMBA ride<\/a> and tagged along with them. As we&#8217;d hit up The Pines earlier, we ended up covering all of the single track in the park, pretty much none of which Craig had been on before.<\/p>\n<p>The ride was pretty uneventful and fun, and Craig seemed to do quite well for his first time on them with that bike. I almost fell once on The Pines when learning just how slippery mud is, but that wasn&#8217;t a huge deal. The mud after that just meant that both my bike and I regularly got sprayed with lumps.<\/p>\n<p>After finishing up about 9.5 miles in the mountain bike trails Craig headed home and I took off to ride over to the still-under-construction Skills Park so that I could see it and hoping to meet up with Nick \/ Dirt. I&#8217;d been told that there were people there working on it this evening, but everyone had already left so I took a few minutes to down half a Clif bar (I was feeling a bit faint) and then headed back to the car and home.<\/p>\n<p>Total distance today was about 14.5 miles, with more than 2\/3 of that being off road, and primarily single track. I feel good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I currently smell bad, mud is stuck to every major part of my body, and I feel very content. I&#8217;m also amazed at just how&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2008\/06\/11\/stinky-dirty-and-happy\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Stinky, Dirty, and Happy<\/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-72","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\/72","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=72"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}