{"id":2426,"date":"2010-10-03T18:41:19","date_gmt":"2010-10-03T22:41:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2010\/10\/secret_city_aft\/"},"modified":"2010-10-03T18:41:19","modified_gmt":"2010-10-03T22:41:19","slug":"secret_city_aft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2010\/10\/secret_city_aft\/","title":{"rendered":"Secret City Afternoon Power Ride Photo Report"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday was a sunny, 75F-degree day. What’s the best way to spend such a beautiful afternoon? Going bicycling, of course.
\nI decided to ride out to Oak Ridge<\/a>, the Secret City (so named because it was founded as part of the Manhattan Project). I grabbed an apple, filled my water bottles, and embarked on another cycling adventure.
\nThe pictures chronicle the journey:
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\nHeading out of Knoxville on Middlebrook Pike.
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\nSheep enjoying the October sunshine.
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\nHeading down into a ravine.
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\nScenic inlet.
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\nMake sure your brakes are in good working condition.
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\nBull Run Fossil Plant. Air quality is good today.
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\nLooking across the Clinch River.
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\nCruising through the Secret City. Traffic was quite light.
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\nOak Ridge High School. I like the logo (on the left).
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\nFreshly-paved Highway 95. I was surprised to discover several miles of bike lane! But it had a lot of gravel on it so I ended up riding at the edge of the traffic lane much of the way anyway.
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\nWhich way do I go? Where’s my map?
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\nI’ve got the road all to myself.
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\nUh oh.
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\nSecurity gate at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Oops, I left my security clearance at home.
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\nMelton Hill Dam.
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\nDam\/Bike shot.
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\nRiding on a bridge over the interstate I noticed that something bad had happened to this car.
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\nEnsuing traffic jam.
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\nA change in the hillside hue indicates that evening draws nigh.
\nA great ride. Traffic was light, winds were mild, I only had two cars honk at me, and no one threw anything at me. What more can you ask for?
\nRide stats<\/strong>:
\n62.8 miles
\n3:45:30<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday was a sunny, 75F-degree day. What’s the best way to spend such a beautiful afternoon? Going bicycling, of course. I decided to ride out to Oak Ridge, the Secret City (so named because it was founded as part of the Manhattan Project). I grabbed an apple, filled my water bottles, and embarked on another […]<\/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":["post-2426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized","h-entry","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2426","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=2426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2426\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}