{"id":8,"date":"2011-04-10T13:35:35","date_gmt":"2011-04-10T13:35:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davidgunter.com\/words\/?p=8"},"modified":"2015-03-02T11:05:47","modified_gmt":"2015-03-02T18:05:47","slug":"bike-journal-1-bad-dog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidgunter.com\/es-mx\/2011\/04\/10\/bike-journal-1-bad-dog\/","title":{"rendered":"Bad Dog!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today was the first ride on the new Marin road bike. I will preface this with the admonishment that if you are the type of person who lets your dog roam freely around the neighborhood, I hope you rot in hell.<\/p>\n

It’s been cold, windy and rainy since Thursday. The sore throat I felt coming on Friday, got worse yesterday and tried to keep me indoors today. But the sun is out and I’ve been dying to try the new bike. I decided the 9 mile ride would probably be OK so off I went.<\/p>\n

A half mile into the ride a dog darted out from somewhere behind me directly in front of the bike. I rammed it in its side before I could slow down. The dog rolled, yelped, got up and ran off. I skidded, came down on my right hand and arm and slid for a wee bit. Enough to tear through my padded gloves, windbreaker and long sleeve shirt and skin. Got up and walked around to make sure nothing was seriously wrong – with either me or the bike. The bike was perfect. I couldn’t have been going more than 10 mph since I was heading uphill.<\/p>\n

I decided to finish the rest of the 8.5 miles instead of looking at my knee or elbow since they hadn’t started to hurt yet.\u00a0 Glad I did because it felt good to be out and this bike performed amazingly well. My average speed before today on this route was around 9 mph and today it was just over 13 mph. That means I did today’s ride 17 minutes faster than my time from a few weeks ago. I’m looking forward to repeating the Bonanza Creek ride later this week to see how much of an improvement I can make.<\/p>\n

Route and stats from today’s ride:\u00a0Google Tracks<\/a><\/p>\n

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Minor flesh wound #1<\/p><\/div>\n

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Minor flesh wound #2<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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