{"id":2499,"date":"2009-05-29T19:08:03","date_gmt":"2009-05-30T05:08:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.studionewmedia.com\/blog\/?p=2499"},"modified":"2009-05-29T19:08:03","modified_gmt":"2009-05-30T05:08:03","slug":"heat-wave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/05\/29\/heat-wave\/","title":{"rendered":"Heat Wave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Heavy, sudden, and random storm showers blanketed the island starting late Thursday morning. I kept an eye on the mountains and webcameras, but Tantalus remained clear into the afternoon, so the ride was on. JT called me as I was rolling out, saying he couldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t make it, leaving Ckucke, Kevyn, Root, and I to suffer through the sweltering, windless climb. The cold start brought on the burn rather quickly, but with the fortification of <em>Amino Vital<\/em>, I was able to get more work out of my muscles, and got to the top in under 40-minutes. Having been without it on three hard rides, I could feel the difference. The Memorial Day weekend got my diurnal rhythms all thrown off by a day, so my body expected a rest day but got punishment instead. I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know what I did earlier in the week to cause it, but I had no strength in my arms, so when I did any standing climbs, I had difficulty keeping the bike in line. It didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t help any that I had a salty, heavy lunch and a good case of water retention to drag me down. There wasn&#8217;t any active rain, but the pavement was wet after the bridge. After making &#8220;Aloha&#8221; with Trek-guy, Kenny, and Nancy at the top, we took the <em>Roundtop Drive<\/em> way down.\u00c2\u00a0 Other than them anda handful of other people, the mountain was deserted.\u00c2\u00a0 Wetness and burnt-out muscles kept the descent speeds down to whatever gravity could incite.<\/p>\n<p>D = 16.35 km (10.16-miles), Vavr = 18.4 km\/h (11.4-mph), Vmax = 64.6 km\/h (40.0-mph), T = 53-minutes (39-minutes up, 14-minutes down)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heavy, sudden, and random storm showers blanketed the island starting late Thursday morning. I kept an eye on the mountains and webcameras, but Tantalus remained clear into the afternoon, so the ride was on. JT called me as I was rolling out, saying he couldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t make it, leaving Ckucke, Kevyn, Root, and I to suffer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paJYlx-Ej","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2499"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2499\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}