{"id":1401,"date":"2011-02-08T19:08:39","date_gmt":"2011-02-09T03:08:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/?p=1401"},"modified":"2011-02-10T23:32:45","modified_gmt":"2011-02-11T07:32:45","slug":"solo-plunge-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/2011\/02\/solo-plunge-run\/","title":{"rendered":"Solo Plunge Run"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I finally found the urge to ride again after 3 weeks of being generally lethargic and\u00a0obscenely\u00a0fat. Since I only had one class today in the morning, I went over to the Hayward Plunge in the afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a picture of this waterfall near the beginning of the trail.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/waterfall.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1403\" title=\"waterfall\" src=\"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/waterfall-600x448.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"448\" srcset=\"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/waterfall-600x448.png 600w, http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/waterfall.png 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Shortly after the waterfall, there is an open clearing. This is where things got a bit interesting&#8230; as I was riding up, I see this bulldog running straight at me. My plan was to flip a u-turn and haul ass out of there, but unfortunately I wasn&#8217;t able to make it very far. There was loose gravel in the area and my front tire sank into a nearby rut, which swiftly and wholly foiled my escape.<\/p>\n<p>I was then left standing and engaged in an awkward staring contest with this huge-headed dog. I wasn&#8217;t sure if it was going to bite me or if it content doing virtually nothing. Thankfully, a few moments later, I see the owner strolling merrily into view&#8230; people need to keep their dogs on a LEASH.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, the rest of the ride went well. Somehow my cardio was not completely diminished, and I was able to get in 2 loops of the main trails.<\/p>\n<p>Rising above the tree line and nearing the top.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/trees.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1402\" title=\"trees\" src=\"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/trees-600x448.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"448\" srcset=\"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/trees-600x448.png 600w, http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/trees.png 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Today had been fairly windy, but all the trees did a great job as shields.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I finally found the urge to ride again after 3 weeks of being generally lethargic and\u00a0obscenely\u00a0fat. Since I only had one class today in the morning, I went over to the Hayward Plunge in the afternoon. Here&#8217;s a picture of this waterfall near the beginning of the trail. Shortly after the waterfall, there is an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1402,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1401"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1401"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1406,"href":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1401\/revisions\/1406"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}