{"id":333,"date":"2013-06-01T11:32:53","date_gmt":"2013-06-01T16:32:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sunlightbay.com\/blog\/?p=333"},"modified":"2013-06-01T11:33:11","modified_gmt":"2013-06-01T16:33:11","slug":"tour-de-rock-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sunlightbay.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/01\/tour-de-rock-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Tour de Rock 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the largest bike rides in central Arkansas, the Tour de Rock, kicked off at 7:00 am this morning. For the first time in several years, I didn’t ride<\/strong>!<\/p>\n

I had planned to ride; I got up at 5:30 this morning and assembled my gear–water bottles, electrolyte pills, helmet, gloves, etc. By 6:15 I had loaded my bike and was on my way. After driving a couple of miles, I turned around and came home and pouted.<\/p>\n

Two things influenced my decision not to ride. First, the weather forecast called for thunderstorms and heavy rain. The greatest probability for storms was for the afternoon, and I thought the rain might hold off until after the ride. But, it started to rain about 10 minutes after I left home. Second, I was dizzy this morning. This is the third day in a row that I’ve felt dizzy. So, the thought of riding nearly 70 miles in a pouring rain on slick roads while feeling dizzy, was enough to cause me to stay home.<\/p>\n

It was a wise decision. It poured rain all morning\u2014over 2 inches in 3 hours. I can’t imagine that riding a bike in a downpour could be the least bit fun. Because of so much rain, the 100-mile ride was suspended after 2 hours, and some rides were canceled.<\/p>\n

My dizziness is no doubt related to a previous spell<\/a> of dizziness that caused me to crash my bike into a rock wall. In order to figure out what might be causing the problem, I’ve been wearing a heart monitor<\/a> for the past 3 weeks and will wear it another week. I’ve been instructed to press a button on the monitor anytime I feel any symptoms, like dizziness. I’ve been pressing the button quite a lot over the past couple of days. I am hopeful the monitor will provide sufficient data so a doctor can diagnose my problem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of the largest bike rides in central Arkansas, the Tour de Rock, kicked off at 7:00 am this morning. For the first time in several years, I didn’t ride! I had planned to ride; I got up at 5:30 this morning and assembled my gear–water bottles, electrolyte pills, helmet, gloves, etc. By 6:15 I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10,2,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biking","category-bob","category-health"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3qUzP-5n","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sunlightbay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sunlightbay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sunlightbay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sunlightbay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sunlightbay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=333"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/sunlightbay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":336,"href":"http:\/\/sunlightbay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333\/revisions\/336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sunlightbay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sunlightbay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sunlightbay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}