{"id":591,"date":"2016-04-25T20:12:37","date_gmt":"2016-04-26T00:12:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.randonneursontario.ca\/?p=591"},"modified":"2016-04-26T10:14:07","modified_gmt":"2016-04-26T14:14:07","slug":"gentle-start-200-brevet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.randonneursontario.ca\/?p=591","title":{"rendered":"Gentle Start 200 Brevet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ride report from Bob Macleod:<\/p>\n<div>Ten cyclists participated in the Toronto Chapter&#8217;s first brevet of the season, including two doing their first brevet &#8211; Michael and Graeme, &#8220;welcome&#8221;!<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>We had perfect Spring-weather conditions, the most benign in memory for this late April event which often brings challenging winds and bitter temp&#8217;s. Yesterday was sunny until late afternoon, no wind to speak of and comfortable cycling temp&#8217;s starting at 2C to a high of 12C in mid-afternoon. Spring is evident everywhere &#8211; grasses are all bright green, waterways running fast, blackbirds are starting to establish their territories and every pond seems to have been claimed by a pair of geese or ducks.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Finish times were between 7h53m and 10h30m, so everyone seems to have had a relatively successful ride. Here&#8217;s looking forward to the next big event!<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ride report from Bob Macleod: Ten cyclists participated in the Toronto Chapter&#8217;s first brevet of the season, including two doing their first brevet &#8211; Michael and Graeme, &#8220;welcome&#8221;! We had perfect Spring-weather conditions, the most benign in memory for this &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.randonneursontario.ca\/?p=591\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ride-reports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.randonneursontario.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.randonneursontario.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=591"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.randonneursontario.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":592,"href":"https:\/\/blog.randonneursontario.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591\/revisions\/592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.randonneursontario.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.randonneursontario.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.randonneursontario.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}