{"id":1394,"date":"2012-09-14T08:00:06","date_gmt":"2012-09-14T12:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greatdivideride.com\/?p=1394"},"modified":"2024-07-30T13:01:26","modified_gmt":"2024-07-30T19:01:26","slug":"day-77-flat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greatdivideride.com\/unicycle\/2012\/09\/14\/day-77-flat\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 77 – Flat"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
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Day 77 – Flat<\/h2><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

September 8, 2012

Start: Cuba, NM
End: Arroyo Seccion

Today\u2019s miles: 62.0
Total miles: 2302.0

Splats: 0
Divide crossings: 0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Canada –> Mexico!<\/span><\/div>
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I had a scare this morning when, 11 miles into the ride, I looked at my GPS to see that the route split off about 10 miles back. It took me a few panicked minutes to realize that my GPS track showed the alternate paved route. I\u2019ve been relying heavily on GPS for navigation and felt a little nervous the rest of the day as I followed some other bike tracks. The tracks looked a little different from Queen Bee\u2019s (Jenny) and Josh \u2018it\u2019s all downhill<\/em>\u2018 \u2018s which made me more nervous. To add, the wind was strong and quickly erasing any evidence of earlier passers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today was a day of arroyos. And a day not to get rained on, one because of flash flooding and two because of the adhesive-like New Mexico mud. Fortunately, wind and sand were all I had to contend with, and that was plenty. I also suffered my first flat tire of the trip, which set me back a bit. I didn\u2019t get into camp until after dark. I tried to ride by headlamp, but it was scary, with deep gullies eroded across and alongside the road. I had a flashback and a scare when I fell on one of them and rolled my ankle. All was good, but I decided I was being an idiot trying to ride this terrain in the dark. I would have stopped and camped, but I could see a light in the distance that drew me like a moth to a light (or perhaps to a bug zapper). It wasn\u2019t until I was only a few feet from the light that I confirmed I had found home for the night and not a bug zapper.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I had a scare this morning when, 11 miles into the ride, I looked at my GPS to see that the route split off about 10 miles back. It took me a few panicked minutes to realize that my GPS track showed the alternate paved route.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2321,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-container-style":"default","site-container-layout":"default","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-transparent-header":"default","disable-article-header":"default","disable-site-header":"default","disable-site-footer":"default","disable-content-area-spacing":"default","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-riding","post_format-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greatdivideride.com\/unicycle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greatdivideride.com\/unicycle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greatdivideride.com\/unicycle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatdivideride.com\/unicycle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatdivideride.com\/unicycle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1394"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatdivideride.com\/unicycle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2324,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatdivideride.com\/unicycle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1394\/revisions\/2324"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatdivideride.com\/unicycle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greatdivideride.com\/unicycle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatdivideride.com\/unicycle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatdivideride.com\/unicycle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}