{"id":627,"date":"2012-05-06T16:55:00","date_gmt":"2012-05-06T20:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greatdivideride.com\/?p=627"},"modified":"2024-03-31T16:18:08","modified_gmt":"2024-03-31T22:18:08","slug":"tour-de-guad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greatdivideride.com\/unicycle\/2012\/05\/06\/tour-de-guad\/","title":{"rendered":"Tour de Guad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.greatdivideride.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/IMG_0066.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-628\" title=\"IMG_0066\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greatdivideride.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/IMG_0066-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"210\" height=\"158\" \/><\/a>Tour #5 of the Tour de Guad went down yesterday, Cinco de Mayo.\u00a0 This was my first time participating and the first time a unicycle has joined the shenanigans.\u00a0 So what is the tour?\u00a0 In the Tour de Guad, the city&#8217;s top cyclists gather and take over the streets.\u00a0 We make our way around town, stopping at the 4 Guadalara Mexican Restaurants in Charlottesville.\u00a0 At each Guadalara, we snack on tortilla chips and replenish fluids.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.greatdivideride.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/524089_10150829478828486_759758485_9525658_1781931969_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-631 aligncenter\" title=\"524089_10150829478828486_759758485_9525658_1781931969_n\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greatdivideride.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/524089_10150829478828486_759758485_9525658_1781931969_n-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.greatdivideride.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/523056_10150829496338486_759758485_9525709_477265750_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-630\" title=\"523056_10150829496338486_759758485_9525709_477265750_n\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greatdivideride.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/523056_10150829496338486_759758485_9525709_477265750_n-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"210\" height=\"139\" \/><\/a>We took off for the first stop around 1:00 and I soon fell behind on the first downhill.\u00a0 When I&#8217;d pass a pedestrian, I&#8217;d point to the group ahead yelling, &#8220;damn kids stole my wheel!&#8221; and then sprint after them.\u00a0 I had two pretty intense wipeouts on this first segment.\u00a0 The first fall happened as I made a sharp turn onto a footbridge.\u00a0 I hit a patch of mud and the wheel disappeared right out from under me.\u00a0 I rolled around on the bridge for a bit after that one (as in rolling around on the ground, not on the unicycle).\u00a0 The second fall came as I approached the restaurant.\u00a0 In reaction to the cheering crowd, I began to raise my arms in celebration a little too early, and flew off the front of the uni.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve ever splattered myself on the sidewalk like that before.\u00a0 Thank goodness for body armor.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.greatdivideride.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/522196_10150829506613486_759758485_9525773_1612673578_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-629\" title=\"522196_10150829506613486_759758485_9525773_1612673578_n\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greatdivideride.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/522196_10150829506613486_759758485_9525773_1612673578_n-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"210\" height=\"139\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.greatdivideride.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/385688_10150829511343486_759758485_9525784_879606259_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-638\" title=\"385688_10150829511343486_759758485_9525784_879606259_n\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greatdivideride.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/385688_10150829511343486_759758485_9525784_879606259_n-300x214.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"210\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">The second segment scared me with a few busier roads, so I hopped in the sag vehicle and cheered the riders on through town.\u00a0 I was back on the uni for the final two segments, and even led the pack for the first mile or so out of the second Guad.\u00a0 After some chips, energy gels and ice water at the third Guad, we prepared for the home stretch.\u00a0 A boiling sky unleashed itself as we crowded under the small overhanging roof, but we eventually braved the weather and headed to the final stop, downtown.\u00a0 After a soggy celebration full of margaritas (and some fountain swimming), some of us went over to cheer on our 8 wheeled friends&#8217; roller derby match.\u00a0 Go Derby Dames!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.greatdivideride.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/545019_10150829523048486_759758485_9525837_1030324330_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-633 alignnone\" title=\"545019_10150829523048486_759758485_9525837_1030324330_n\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greatdivideride.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/545019_10150829523048486_759758485_9525837_1030324330_n-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"135\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.greatdivideride.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/IMG_0110.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-632\" title=\"IMG_0110\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greatdivideride.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/IMG_0110-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"189\" height=\"142\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tour #5 of the Tour de Guad went down yesterday, Cinco de Mayo.\u00a0 This was my first time participating and the first time a unicycle has joined the shenanigans.\u00a0 So what is the tour?\u00a0 In the Tour de Guad, the city&#8217;s top cyclists gather and take over the streets.\u00a0 We make our way around town, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"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":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prep"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greatdivideride.com\/unicycle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627","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=627"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatdivideride.com\/unicycle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1476,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatdivideride.com\/unicycle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627\/revisions\/1476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greatdivideride.com\/unicycle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatdivideride.com\/unicycle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatdivideride.com\/unicycle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}