{"id":2167,"date":"2007-04-07T00:51:58","date_gmt":"2007-04-07T04:51:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2007\/04\/up_up_and_up\/"},"modified":"2007-04-07T00:51:58","modified_gmt":"2007-04-07T04:51:58","slug":"up_up_and_up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2007\/04\/up_up_and_up\/","title":{"rendered":"Up, Up, And Up"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Tuesday I did my second annual spring ride up the Cherohala Skyway<\/a>. I rode from Tellico Plains, TN, (900 feet) up to Santeetlah overlook, NC, (5,390 ft) and back.
\nIt was a great day to be out riding. The bank sign said it was 79F when I started. That’s a bit too warm for the first few miles of climbing, but it felt pretty good above 3,000 ft. Since it was an April weekday, there was hardly any traffic to content with. I largely had the road to myself.
\nThe ride starts with an easy and scenic five-mile stretch along the Tellico River. Then the climb gets nasty. I estimate that 20-22 of the next 25 miles is uphill, much of it at 5%+.
\nIt’s because it’s early in the season (I haven’t done much climbing), I’m out of shape, or what, but I thought about mailing it in several times the during the last ten miles. Time also became an issue–I wanted to get back to see the Lady Vols play in the NCAA championship.
\nAnyway, I tapped into my determination reservoir and made it to the top in 2:30. It was cloudy up there, but fortunately it wasn’t too windy; otherwise I might of gotten cold. Interestingly, the major annoyance turned out to be insects. I didn’t expect them at that elevation in early April, but they were all over as soon as I stopped.
\nI had a quick energy snack and headed back west. Fortunately, it’s almost all downhill, because my legs started cramping. There’s four or five notable uphill stretches on the descent, and a couple times I thought I might have to stop because my muscles were acting up.
\nBut I had just enough to work through it. I rolled back into Tellico Plains at 7:30 p.m., completing another great day on the bike.
\nRide statistics<\/strong>
\n–Distance: 61.3 miles
\n–Riding time: 3:57:30
\n–Average speed: 15.4 mph
\n–Fastest speed: 42 mph<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On Tuesday I did my second annual spring ride up the Cherohala Skyway. I rode from Tellico Plains, TN, (900 feet) up to Santeetlah overlook, NC, (5,390 ft) and back. It was a great day to be out riding. The bank sign said it was 79F when I started. That’s a bit too warm for […]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2167","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}