{"id":10978,"date":"2016-09-11T20:13:24","date_gmt":"2016-09-12T01:13:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=10978"},"modified":"2016-09-11T20:13:24","modified_gmt":"2016-09-12T01:13:24","slug":"river-parks-ride-with-heather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=10978","title":{"rendered":"River Parks Ride with Heather"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"2016_0910_130210_001\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/29582755586\/in\/dateposted\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c3.staticflickr.com\/9\/8375\/29582755586_bf16e629e6.jpg\" alt=\"2016_0910_130210_001\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Heather and I went on a bike ride today on Tulsa&#8217;s wonderful River Parks trails along the Arkansas River.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"2016_0910_131155_030\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/28991574924\/in\/dateposted\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c5.staticflickr.com\/9\/8231\/28991574924_60cac82865.jpg\" alt=\"2016_0910_131155_030\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>We started on the east bank and went north a ways. (&#8220;A ways&#8221; is how we say things in Oklahoma, just so you know.)<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"2016_0910_131436_038\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/29582732686\/in\/dateposted\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c7.staticflickr.com\/9\/8277\/29582732686_c496fab523.jpg\" alt=\"2016_0910_131436_038\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>That was about a mile and then we went across the west bank across our brand spanking new pedestrian bridge with emergency call stations every 50 yards or so.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"2016_0910_133103_087\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/29536352651\/in\/dateposted\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c4.staticflickr.com\/9\/8322\/29536352651_11f998b8cd.jpg\" alt=\"2016_0910_133103_087\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>And then headed down south past the PSO Tulsa Power Station.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"2016_0910_133505_099\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/28993326513\/in\/dateposted\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c2.staticflickr.com\/9\/8372\/28993326513_c4557c9b32.jpg\" alt=\"2016_0910_133505_099\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Not as many people on the west side of the river compared to the east side. It is a lot more remote with fewer access points.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"2016_0910_140037_175\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/28991341294\/in\/dateposted\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c7.staticflickr.com\/9\/8415\/28991341294_018ca8323c.jpg\" alt=\"2016_0910_140037_175\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Heather kept the pace up even though she said she said her legs were dead. She teaches Zumba classes a few times a week. I&#8217;d be dead myself.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"2016_0910_140820_198\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/28993089823\/in\/dateposted\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c8.staticflickr.com\/9\/8469\/28993089823_7bc525bd58.jpg\" alt=\"2016_0910_140820_198\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>I injured myself in a Labor Day run but I guess that I&#8217;m cured. My knee doesn&#8217;t hurt at all any more. Don&#8217;t tell Heather or I&#8217;ll have to vacuum or mow the yard or something. Can you keep a secret? Yeah, well I can&#8217;t either.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"2016_0910_144456_307\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/29326505060\/in\/dateposted\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c5.staticflickr.com\/9\/8770\/29326505060_688187bc29.jpg\" alt=\"2016_0910_144456_307\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Anyway, we got about 15.5 miles. My garmin shows a half mile less but I didn&#8217;t get it started until we started the ride.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"River Parks Bike Ride with Heather\" src=\"https:\/\/connect.garmin.com\/modern\/activity\/embed\/1354914596\" width=\"465\" height=\"500\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>You know, I think a 15 mile plus or minus is a good ride. So we celebrated by going to a frozen yogurt place. And then home to watch the Cowboys lose to the Giants. Heather cleaned house because she didn&#8217;t know about my miraculously cured knee that you promised you wouldn&#8217;t tell her about.<\/p>\n<p>So, what did you do Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heather and I went on a bike ride today on Tulsa&#8217;s wonderful River Parks trails along the Arkansas River. We started on the east bank and went north a ways. (&#8220;A ways&#8221; is how we say things in Oklahoma, just so you know.) That was about a mile and then we went across the west [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1713,1214,1279,1806,1029,1285],"class_list":["post-10978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","tag-bicycling","tag-exercise","tag-heather","tag-oklahoam","tag-river-parks","tag-tulsa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10978"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10978"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10979,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10978\/revisions\/10979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}