{"id":574,"date":"2015-01-12T18:20:56","date_gmt":"2015-01-13T00:20:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skelmo.com\/?p=574"},"modified":"2015-05-03T14:24:16","modified_gmt":"2015-05-03T19:24:16","slug":"a-day-of-muck-at-bandera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skelmo.com\/?p=574","title":{"rendered":"A day of muck at Bandera"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The morning was as predicted, with a sheet of ice covering my truck . \u00a0The temperature was just below freezing so all the drizzle that came down turned instantly to ice. Miserable picture of me below at the start.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/skelmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IMG_1580.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-572 lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/skelmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IMG_1580-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_1580\" width=\"625\" height=\"469\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/skelmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IMG_1580-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/skelmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IMG_1580-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/skelmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IMG_1580-624x468.jpg 624w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 625px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 625\/469;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>While the temperature was bearable, the sheet of ice covering the rocks was not a lot of fun to run on and I bit it several times in the beginning. \u00a0I ran the first 10 miles right on last years pace, but the weather warmed a few degrees and the trail turned into complete slop. \u00a0If I wasn&#8217;t sliding on the trail, my foot was stuck to it so my stride became a very short baby step. \u00a0It wasn&#8217;t fun and my pace was cut by about 25%. \u00a0The rain never really came down in sheets, but it drizzled on and off all day. \u00a0You can see the ice melting from the cactus prongs as the temperature rose.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/skelmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IMG_1586.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-571 size-large lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/skelmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IMG_1586-e1421108177180-1024x836.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_1586\" width=\"625\" height=\"510\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/skelmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IMG_1586-e1421108177180-1024x836.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/skelmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IMG_1586-e1421108177180-300x245.jpg 300w, https:\/\/skelmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IMG_1586-e1421108177180-624x510.jpg 624w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 625px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 625\/510;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The further I went, the more frustrated I got. \u00a0When I hit the halfway point at the\u00a0start of the 2nd loop, I decided\u00a0to have a beer, drive home, and sit in the spa&#8230; \u00a0so I only went 31 miles instead of 62 &#8211; there is always next year \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The morning was as predicted, with a sheet of ice covering my truck . \u00a0The temperature was just below freezing so all the drizzle that came down turned instantly to ice. Miserable picture of me below at the start. While the temperature was bearable, the sheet of ice covering the rocks was not a lot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-runs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skelmo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skelmo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skelmo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skelmo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skelmo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=574"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/skelmo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":575,"href":"https:\/\/skelmo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574\/revisions\/575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skelmo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skelmo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skelmo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}