{"id":1139,"date":"2009-05-29T19:45:49","date_gmt":"2009-05-30T01:45:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.brickhouseracing.com\/?p=1139"},"modified":"2009-05-29T19:45:49","modified_gmt":"2009-05-30T01:45:49","slug":"afternoon-in-the-ouachitas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/?p=1139","title":{"rendered":"Afternoon in the Ouachitas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This morning, I left behind Ryan (who was on his way to Tulsa Tough) to go to Lake Sylvia for some forest road MTBing and a bit of trail running tomorrow morning. I ended up setting up camp and rolling out around 2:00.<\/p>\n<p>I had my Garmin 205 with me, so it&#8217;s easy to describe my ride today in objective terms: ~35 miles, 9.9 mph average speed, 8844ft of climbing, 3.5hours rolling time.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t really describe it otherwise. Beautiful is an understatement. Here are some photos:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.brickhouseracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/creek.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1142\" title=\"creek\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.brickhouseracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/creek.jpg\" alt=\"North Fork Saline River\" width=\"560\" height=\"420\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.brickhouseracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/closed1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1140\" title=\"closed1\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.brickhouseracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/closed1.jpg\" alt=\"closed1\" width=\"560\" height=\"420\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.brickhouseracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/closed2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1141\" title=\"closed2\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.brickhouseracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/closed2.jpg\" alt=\"closed2\" width=\"560\" height=\"420\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.brickhouseracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/turkey.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1150\" title=\"turkey\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.brickhouseracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/turkey.jpg\" alt=\"turkey\" width=\"560\" height=\"420\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.brickhouseracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/heaven1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1143\" title=\"heaven1\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.brickhouseracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/heaven1.jpg\" alt=\"heaven1\" width=\"560\" height=\"420\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.brickhouseracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/heaven2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1144\" title=\"heaven2\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.brickhouseracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/heaven2.jpg\" alt=\"heaven2\" width=\"560\" height=\"420\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.brickhouseracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/lunch.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1146\" title=\"lunch\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.brickhouseracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/lunch.jpg\" alt=\"Remove shoes\/socks, wade through thigh-deep creek, stop for a snack on the other side while feet dry off...\" width=\"560\" height=\"420\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.brickhouseracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/rocky.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1149\" title=\"rocky\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.brickhouseracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/rocky.jpg\" alt=\"I've passed this overlook &quot;road&quot; many times, but never ventured up until today\" width=\"420\" height=\"560\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.brickhouseracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/overlook1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1147\" title=\"overlook1\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.brickhouseracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/overlook1.jpg\" alt=\"The ride up made the view at the top even more excellent\" width=\"560\" height=\"420\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.brickhouseracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/overlook2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1148\" title=\"overlook2\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.brickhouseracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/overlook2.jpg\" alt=\"overlook2\" width=\"560\" height=\"420\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Can I stay here forever?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning, I left behind Ryan (who was on his way to Tulsa Tough) to go to Lake Sylvia for some forest road MTBing and a bit of trail running tomorrow morning. I ended up setting up camp and rolling out around 2:00. I had my Garmin 205 with me, so it&#8217;s easy to describe&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":[17],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa8Uq-in","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1139"}],"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=1139"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1152,"href":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1139\/revisions\/1152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}