{"id":391,"date":"2007-07-20T11:15:02","date_gmt":"2007-07-20T18:15:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rynosoft.dreamhosters.com\/blog\/?p=391"},"modified":"2008-04-08T17:09:33","modified_gmt":"2008-04-09T00:09:33","slug":"morning-bike-commute-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rynosoft.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/morning-bike-commute-12","title":{"rendered":"Morning Bike Commute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Distance:<\/strong> 17.6 miles<br \/>\n<strong>Riding time:<\/strong> 1 hour, 43 minutes<br \/>\n<strong>Actual time:<\/strong> 3 hours (estimate)<br \/>\n<strong>Max speed:<\/strong> 21.5 mph<br \/>\n<strong>Average speed:<\/strong> 10.2 mph<br \/>\n<strong>Temperature:<\/strong> 63\u00c2\u00ba (with a little rain)<br \/>\n<strong>Route:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>162nd to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.portlandonline.com\/parks\/finder\/index.cfm?action=ViewPark&amp;PropertyID=528\" target=\"pb\">Powell Butte<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Rode in circles for 30 minutes<\/li>\n<li>Old Holgate Trail down to Holgate (wow!)<\/li>\n<li>Holgate to Buddy&#8217;s house<\/li>\n<li>Buddy&#8217;s house to Foster Road<\/li>\n<li>Foster Road to Woodward\/Clinton<\/li>\n<li>Clinton to Springwater Corridor<\/li>\n<li>Springwater Corridor to Hawthorne Bridge<\/li>\n<li>Waited 10 minutes for bridge to close<\/li>\n<li>Waterfront to Oak<\/li>\n<li>Oak to Broadway<\/li>\n<li>Broadway to work<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I originally intended to ride down to the Springwater Corridor and take that into downtown but taking 162nd south ran me right into Powell Butte. Powell Butte is a park with many trails suitable for biking. It hooks up with Springwater Corridor on the south side, so I decided I would ride over it. It opens with a really steep, but paved hill that will literally take your breath away (from pedaling). After I took a five minute break, I zig-zagged the rest of the way up the hill. Once I got to the top, though, it was easier going. I grabbed the paved trail and went on my way. After riding for about 20 minutes, I was very close to where I had started. Powell Butte has many trails to choose from and I had no idea which to choose. Except it occurred to me that the &#8220;Old Holgate Trail&#8221; might take me down to Holgate Street which is south of Powell. It did and I came out very close to Buddy&#8217;s house. I was going to stop and leave a copy of the Constitution in his door (my new calling card) but his truck was in the driveway and his front door was open. He doesn&#8217;t work on Friday so we chatted for a few minutes while I plotted my new course with my bike map. I didn&#8217;t think I had much left in the tank so I threw out the Springwater Corridor course, which jogs south a few miles, and adopted a new course crossing southeast Portland into downtown. As it turned out, I was not very fatigued as I pedaled up the ramp to the Hawthorne Bridge. Sadly, they had the drawbridge open and were doing some sort of maintenance which took a very long time. I stood patiently and listened to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Handsome_Boy_Modeling_School\" target=\"wikipedia\">Handsome Boy Modeling School<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I originally intended to ride down to the Springwater Corridor and take that into downtown&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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":[8],"tags":[1561,377,277,1559,279,702,29],"class_list":["post-391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biking","tag-biking","tag-buddy","tag-commute","tag-music","tag-powell-butte","tag-springwater-corridor","tag-weather"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peh6u-6j","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rynosoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rynosoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rynosoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rynosoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rynosoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rynosoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rynosoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rynosoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rynosoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}