{"id":1538,"date":"2025-12-20T10:18:36","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T15:18:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.randonneursontario.ca\/?p=1538"},"modified":"2025-12-20T10:18:36","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T15:18:36","slug":"riding-among-us-remembering-allan-jackson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.randonneursontario.ca\/?p=1538","title":{"rendered":"Riding Among Us: Remembering Allan Jackson"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>There are moments in any sport that remind us how precious \u2014 and fragile \u2014 life is. For our randonneuring community, the passing of&nbsp;<\/em><strong><em>Allan Jackson<\/em><\/strong><em>&nbsp;is one such moment.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Peter Leiss recently shared a Toronto Star story about Allan. He was a fellow cyclist, someone that Peggy and Peter had the pleasure of riding with. Tragically, Allan passed away while riding to see his doctor. Earlier that day, he had been shoveling snow and felt unwell; on his way to the appointment, he apparently suffered a heart attack.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Although we may not all have known Allan personally, his story speaks to us all \u2014 as cyclists, as friends, as members of this community.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.randonneursontario.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/life_in_fast_track_page_1-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"621\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.randonneursontario.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/life_in_fast_track_page_1-621x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1539\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.randonneursontario.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/life_in_fast_track_page_1-621x1024.jpg 621w, https:\/\/blog.randonneursontario.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/life_in_fast_track_page_1-182x300.jpg 182w, https:\/\/blog.randonneursontario.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/life_in_fast_track_page_1-768x1266.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.randonneursontario.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/life_in_fast_track_page_1-932x1536.jpg 932w, https:\/\/blog.randonneursontario.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/life_in_fast_track_page_1-1242x2048.jpg 1242w, https:\/\/blog.randonneursontario.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/life_in_fast_track_page_1-scaled.jpg 1553w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 621px) 100vw, 621px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are moments in any sport that remind us how precious \u2014 and fragile \u2014 life is. For our randonneuring community, the passing of&nbsp;Allan Jackson&nbsp;is one such moment. Peter Leiss recently shared a Toronto Star story about Allan. He was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.randonneursontario.ca\/?p=1538\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.randonneursontario.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.randonneursontario.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.randonneursontario.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.randonneursontario.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.randonneursontario.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1538"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.randonneursontario.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1540,"href":"https:\/\/blog.randonneursontario.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1538\/revisions\/1540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.randonneursontario.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.randonneursontario.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.randonneursontario.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}