{"id":624,"date":"2016-05-11T10:37:14","date_gmt":"2016-05-11T14:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.randonneursontario.ca\/?p=624"},"modified":"2016-06-06T10:40:17","modified_gmt":"2016-06-06T14:40:17","slug":"huron-chapters-entertainment-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.randonneursontario.ca\/?p=624","title":{"rendered":"Huron Chapter&#8217;s Entertainment Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ride report from Carey Chappelle:<\/p>\n<p>The Huron Chapter started their Entertainment Series Brevets\u00a0with the Much Ado About &#8230;.. on Saturday, 7May2016. 18 of the 19 Cyclists finished this 200km Brevet &#8230;. wait &#8230;. all 19 actually finished this brevet,\u00a0just one was outside the time limit of 13.5 hrs. The weather forecast leading up to Saturday was not positive &#8230; wind and rain. Somehow I guessed the actual weather to be sunny, with the rain only happening when\u00a07 of us attended the Shakespeare in Love Play. \u00a0Bob Kassel can confirm my weather forecast as he has the e-mails I sent.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0Much Ado About &#8230;.\u00a0had Sunshine and a blue sky for the first 100km. A few clouds came in after that, with a few rain drops but nothing to be concerned with. The Stratford\u00a0Control was\u00a0where the Randonneurs split up,\u00a07 had tickets to the Shakespeare in Love\u00a0play and the rest\u00a0of the Randonneurs had lunch and simply carried on.<\/p>\n<p>I enjoyed the Shakespeare in Love play,\u00a0which does it&#8217;s own lifting: from Romeo and Juliet, we tended to sentimentalize Romeo and Juliet so much that we forgot that they did a really STUPID thing. They had an incredible death wish,\u00a0they knew they were going to kill themselves! At the end,\u00a0an emotional reaction was obvious &#8230;\u00a0just looking around at everyone! \u00a0I&#8217;ll see it again before year&#8217;s end!<\/p>\n<p>Shakespeare In Love<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.randonneursontario.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Tuxido-Randonneurs.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-625\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.randonneursontario.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Tuxido-Randonneurs-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Tuxido Randonneurs!\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.randonneursontario.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Tuxido-Randonneurs-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.randonneursontario.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Tuxido-Randonneurs-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/blog.randonneursontario.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Tuxido-Randonneurs.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The play ended around 1645hrs, the rain had stopped so\u00a0the 7 of us got back on our bikes to finish the last 64km before 2030hrs.\u00a0With\u00a0 50km to go we passed Jakub Ner, but only after taking some photos!<\/p>\n<p>Jakub Ner on a Unicycle!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.randonneursontario.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Jacob.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-626\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.randonneursontario.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Jacob-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Jacob!\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.randonneursontario.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Jacob-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blog.randonneursontario.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Jacob-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.randonneursontario.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Jacob.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now, over the years we have done brevets on\u00a0standard bicycles with Jakub, but this performance was a FIRST! I have never seen a Unicycle being ridden on a brevet or even heard of someone attempting it! Had to ask Jacob where he got this idea from and he made it clear that his children didn&#8217;t like riding with him on his regular bike so he purchased the Unicycle\u00a0and goes everywhere with his kids!!!<\/p>\n<p>What an awesome brevet! Entertaining from Beginning to End!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ride report from Carey Chappelle: The Huron Chapter started their Entertainment Series Brevets\u00a0with the Much Ado About &#8230;.. on Saturday, 7May2016. 18 of the 19 Cyclists finished this 200km Brevet &#8230;. wait &#8230;. all 19 actually finished this brevet,\u00a0just one &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.randonneursontario.ca\/?p=624\">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-624","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\/624","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=624"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.randonneursontario.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":627,"href":"https:\/\/blog.randonneursontario.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624\/revisions\/627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.randonneursontario.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.randonneursontario.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.randonneursontario.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}