{"id":1426,"date":"2008-09-07T20:35:57","date_gmt":"2008-09-08T01:35:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/?p=1426"},"modified":"2015-05-27T08:53:02","modified_gmt":"2015-05-27T13:53:02","slug":"nyc-century-bike-tour-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/07\/nyc-century-bike-tour-2008\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC Century Bike Tour 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Today I rode the 55 mile route of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nyccentury.org\">NYC Century Bike Tour<\/a> sponsored by Transportation Alternatives.  Aside from the fact that I now look like a giant lobster (albeit one with bike short and bike glove lines) because I sweat off my sunscreen by about 8am, it was a great day.  I can&#8217;t feel my legs, but it was still great.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the route I took.  It was so long that google maps made me break it up into two lines, but you&#8217;ll see that when added up, my total ride was about 61 and a half miles.  Not bad if I do say so myself&#8230;<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" marginheight=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps\/ms?ie=UTF8&amp;s=AARTsJpl5hSgZZcT_ZhAhR916TJ9GIGcxw&amp;msa=0&amp;msid=114595443857487120327.000456553d9a18f2f97e2&amp;ll=40.712915,-73.944855&amp;spn=0.364328,0.583649&amp;z=10&amp;output=embed\"><\/iframe><br \/><small><a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps\/ms?ie=UTF8&amp;msa=0&amp;msid=114595443857487120327.000456553d9a18f2f97e2&amp;ll=40.712915,-73.944855&amp;spn=0.364328,0.583649&amp;z=10&amp;source=embed\" style=\"color:#0000FF;text-align:left\">View Larger Map<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n<p>And now I&#8217;m going to crawl under my covers and hope that this ridiculous sunburn chill goes away at some point.  As it is, I&#8217;m going to have to wear long sleeves to work tomorrow, to hide the combination of t-shirt and bike glove tan (making it look like I&#8217;m wearing giant red (or, really, purple) arm warmers).  I always wear pants, so hiding my legs isn&#8217;t too much of a problem&#8230;although I imagine it&#8217;s going to hurt like a mofo.<\/p>\n<p>[Update 2015] In an effort to reduce the number of holdover pages on the blog, I am slowly (very slowly) integrating albums into the appropriate historical posts on the blog itself.  As such, photos can now be found directly below.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"NYC Century 2008: starting line\" rel=\"lightbox[century2008]\" href=\"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/photos\/NYCCentury2008\/mediafiles\/l1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/photos\/NYCCentury2008\/mediafiles\/l1.jpg\" width=\"192\" height=\"192\" border=\"4\" alt=\"1615\"><\/a>  <a title=\"NYC Century 2008: riding down broadway\" rel=\"lightbox[century2008]\" href=\"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/photos\/NYCCentury2008\/mediafiles\/l2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/photos\/NYCCentury2008\/mediafiles\/l2.jpg\" width=\"192\" height=\"192\" border=\"4\" alt=\"1616\"><\/a>  <a title=\"NYC Century 2008: riding down broadway to the flatiron\" rel=\"lightbox[century2008]\" href=\"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/photos\/NYCCentury2008\/mediafiles\/l3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/photos\/NYCCentury2008\/mediafiles\/l3.jpg\" width=\"192\" height=\"192\" border=\"4\" alt=\"1617\"><\/a>  <a title=\"NYC Century 2008: rest stop 1: prospect park\" rel=\"lightbox[century2008]\" href=\"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/photos\/NYCCentury2008\/mediafiles\/l4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/photos\/NYCCentury2008\/mediafiles\/l4.jpg\" width=\"192\" height=\"192\" border=\"4\" alt=\"1618\"><\/a>  <a title=\"NYC Century 2008: prospect park\" rel=\"lightbox[century2008]\" href=\"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/photos\/NYCCentury2008\/mediafiles\/l5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/photos\/NYCCentury2008\/mediafiles\/l5.jpg\" width=\"192\" height=\"192\" border=\"4\" alt=\"1619\"><\/a>  <a title=\"NYC Century 2008: brooklyn waterfront\" rel=\"lightbox[century2008]\" href=\"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/photos\/NYCCentury2008\/mediafiles\/l6.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/photos\/NYCCentury2008\/mediafiles\/l6.jpg\" width=\"192\" height=\"192\" border=\"4\" alt=\"1620\"><\/a>  <a title=\"NYC Century 2008: brooklyn waterfront\" rel=\"lightbox[century2008]\" href=\"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/photos\/NYCCentury2008\/mediafiles\/l7.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/photos\/NYCCentury2008\/mediafiles\/l7.jpg\" width=\"192\" height=\"192\" border=\"4\" alt=\"1621\"><\/a>  <a title=\"NYC Century 2008: brooklyn waterfront\" rel=\"lightbox[century2008]\" href=\"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/photos\/NYCCentury2008\/mediafiles\/l8.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/photos\/NYCCentury2008\/mediafiles\/l8.jpg\" width=\"192\" height=\"192\" border=\"4\" alt=\"1622\"><\/a>  <a title=\"NYC Century 2008: brooklyn waterfront\" rel=\"lightbox[century2008]\" href=\"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/photos\/NYCCentury2008\/mediafiles\/l9.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/photos\/NYCCentury2008\/mediafiles\/l9.jpg\" width=\"192\" height=\"192\" border=\"4\" alt=\"1623\"><\/a>  <a title=\"NYC Century 2008: the original nathan's\" rel=\"lightbox[century2008]\" href=\"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/photos\/NYCCentury2008\/mediafiles\/l10.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/photos\/NYCCentury2008\/mediafiles\/l10.jpg\" width=\"192\" height=\"192\" border=\"4\" alt=\"1624\"><\/a>  <a title=\"NYC Century 2008: Nathan's\" rel=\"lightbox[century2008]\" href=\"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/photos\/NYCCentury2008\/mediafiles\/l11.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/photos\/NYCCentury2008\/mediafiles\/l11.jpg\" width=\"192\" height=\"192\" border=\"4\" alt=\"1625\"><\/a>  <a 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Aside from the fact that I now look like a giant lobster (albeit one with bike short and bike glove lines) because I sweat off my sunscreen by about 8am, it was a great day. I can&#8217;t feel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[40,14,10],"class_list":["post-1426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-cycling","tag-new-york-city","tag-photos"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6ZBi-n0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1426"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8677,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1426\/revisions\/8677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}