{"id":1045,"date":"2009-04-26T15:49:31","date_gmt":"2009-04-26T21:49:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.brickhouseracing.com\/?p=1045"},"modified":"2009-04-26T15:49:31","modified_gmt":"2009-04-26T21:49:31","slug":"weekend-fail-part-ii-the-saga-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/?p=1045","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Fail Part II, The Saga Continues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I went for my 4 hour ride this morning. I accidentally left one of my favorite water bottles at the Shelby Forest General Store. Luckily, Ryan gave me one of his when I ran out of water about an hour from home.<br \/>\nOnce we got home, I grabbed a snack and headed back out to ride more at Stanky Creek. I wanted to ride a solid two hours in preparation for Dirt Sweat &amp; Gears in a couple of weeks. Other than my legs feeling a bit sluggish in the first few minutes, I warmed up and actually felt pretty damn good. I really wanted to focus on not using my brakes as much, looking ahead instead of down, and generally carrying more speed into tricky spots where I usually tend to slow down.<\/p>\n<p>I was doing this well.<\/p>\n<p>Then I rolled over some leftover branches from a downed tree that had been cleared from the trail. I heard a stick hit my spokes, and a fraction of a second later, I felt as if someone had ripped my bike out from under me as something jammed into my rear wheel (maybe a stick between the spoke\/frame?) Though the bike stopped abruptly, I kept moving, and ended up falling onto the handlebars and\u00c3\u201a  jamming a bar end into the meaty part of my thigh. It hurt too much for me to curse, so I just sat on the trail for a minute looking at my bike and trying to figure out WTF just happened. I&#8217;m not sure, because once I did get back on, the chain started skipping between gear and being generally noisy. I&#8217;m hoping it&#8217;s not a bent derailleur hanger, but the way my luck has been with those lately, it probably is. Whatever it was, it cut my afternoon ride time short by an hour.<\/p>\n<p>So I&#8217;m officially labeling this weekend as a &#8220;fail&#8221; (though since the first part of yesterday was pretty good, I&#8217;ll reserve the label of &#8220;epic&#8221; fail).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.brickhouseracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/fail-owned-flytrap-fail.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1046\" title=\"fail-owned-flytrap-fail\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.brickhouseracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/fail-owned-flytrap-fail.jpg\" alt=\"fail-owned-flytrap-fail\" width=\"500\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/fail-owned-flytrap-fail.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/fail-owned-flytrap-fail-300x210.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I went for my 4 hour ride this morning. I accidentally left one of my favorite water bottles at the Shelby Forest General Store. Luckily, Ryan gave me one of his when I ran out of water about an hour from home. Once we got home, I grabbed a snack and headed back out&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa8Uq-gR","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1045"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1047,"href":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045\/revisions\/1047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}