{"id":781,"date":"2009-02-10T16:03:22","date_gmt":"2009-02-10T22:03:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.brickhouseracing.com\/?p=781"},"modified":"2009-02-10T16:03:22","modified_gmt":"2009-02-10T22:03:22","slug":"tapering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/?p=781","title":{"rendered":"Tapering&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;In February?!?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Yes, in February. I&#8217;ll be flying out Thursday for my first &#8220;big time&#8221; stage race- <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wmrc.org\/vos\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Valley of the Sun<\/a> in Phoenix, Arizona. I feel ready- on Sunday I could barely contain myself. I took two days off last week and rode easy on Saturday, so I was ready to tear the pedals off of my bike on the group ride. I managed to hold back, though it meant splitting off from the group for a good portion of the outing.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m also excited to announce that I purchased a new laptop! It&#8217;s a Sony VAIO. My desktop was working OK, but it was very slow and had a tendency to bog down for several minutes at a time. Not to mention, it doesn&#8217;t pack too well in my luggage&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>My favorite features are the nice, big screen, an ample keyboard area, and most of all, the built-in webcam, which I&#8217;ve already used to take\u00c3\u201a  random photos like this:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_783\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-783\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.brickhouseracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/image27.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-783\" title=\"image27\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.brickhouseracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/image27.jpg\" alt=\"See you in Arizona...\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/image27.jpg 640w, http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/image27-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-783\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">See you in Arizona...<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;In February?!?&#8221; Yes, in February. I&#8217;ll be flying out Thursday for my first &#8220;big time&#8221; stage race- Valley of the Sun in Phoenix, Arizona. I feel ready- on Sunday I could barely contain myself. I took two days off last week and rode easy on Saturday, so I was ready to tear the pedals off&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":[3,7,5],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/sa8Uq-tapering","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781"}],"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=781"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":784,"href":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781\/revisions\/784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}