{"id":3572,"date":"2013-03-08T13:39:48","date_gmt":"2013-03-08T20:39:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.van-tramp.com\/wp\/?p=3572"},"modified":"2013-08-01T09:52:11","modified_gmt":"2013-08-01T15:52:11","slug":"moab-klondike-bluffs-mountain-biking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.van-tramp.com\/wp\/moab-klondike-bluffs-mountain-biking\/","title":{"rendered":"Moab Klondike Bluffs Mountain Biking"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Klondike-N1\"<\/a>I’m not sure why it was a smart idea to mountain bike two days in a row. And to top it off, this trail would extend my further ride record to 9.8 miles.My original plan was to take the ‘Dino-Flow’ trail out and return on the ‘EKG’ trail. That was until I saw that the EKG was the most advanced trail of them all, and well outside my ability after already riding 4.8 miles out.<\/p>\n

\"Klondike<\/a>

The alien looking shadow is my head with the GoPro camera mounted on my helmet<\/p><\/div>\n

While the trail was not as fun as the previous day’s riding at Brands Focus<\/a> I did still have\u00a0 a good time and learned a lot more about biking. My confidence is building, which is good considering I have a 24 year old, and more experienced rider, to ride with next week on these same trails. Literally, I barely made the distance. In the last 3.4 of a mile my thighs started cramping up. I had to stop and guzzle down as much water as I could to prevent this massive muscle cramp. Obviously I should have been drinking more during the ride, and something I will do next time out.<\/p>\n

Let me also mention that I found two things after the day was done, 1) my front wheel was loose and it was a miracle that I had not crashed hard at some point in the past two days because of it, and 2) the posture I was riding the bike was quickly killing me (handle bars were too low and seat was too far back).<\/p>\n

I decided not to boondock another night. Instead I returned to the Lazy Lizard Hostel<\/a> for a much needed shower and to ride out the bad weather coming in over the weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m not sure why it was a smart idea to mountain bike two days in a row. And to top it off, this trail would extend my further ride record to 9.8 miles.My original plan was to take the ‘Dino-Flow’ trail out and return on the ‘EKG’ trail. That was...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3574,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":""},"categories":[34,179],"tags":[176,180,255],"class_list":["post-3572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hike","category-utah-by-state","tag-biking-2","tag-moab","tag-utah-by-state"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.van-tramp.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Klondike-trail.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9livM-VC","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.van-tramp.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.van-tramp.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.van-tramp.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.van-tramp.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.van-tramp.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.van-tramp.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3572\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.van-tramp.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.van-tramp.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.van-tramp.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.van-tramp.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}