{"id":88,"date":"2008-02-10T15:45:26","date_gmt":"2008-02-10T22:45:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/irun100s.com\/daveharper\/?p=88"},"modified":"2008-02-10T15:58:29","modified_gmt":"2008-02-10T22:58:29","slug":"weekend-of-riding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/irun100s.com\/daveharper\/?p=88","title":{"rendered":"Weekend of Riding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/irun100s.com\/daveharper\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/2008febcroom1.jpg\" title=\"Ashley and Sir Reginald (Reggie)\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/irun100s.com\/daveharper\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/2008febcroom2.jpg\" title=\"Ashley and Sir Reginald (Reggie)\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/irun100s.com\/daveharper\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/2008febcroom3.jpg\" title=\"Croom Trail Ride\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/irun100s.com\/daveharper\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/2008febcroom5.jpg\" title=\"Croom Trail Ride\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/irun100s.com\/daveharper\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/2008febcroom6.jpg\" title=\"Croom Trail Ride\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/irun100s.com\/daveharper\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/2008febcroom8.jpg\" title=\"Croom Trail Ride\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/irun100s.com\/daveharper\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/2008febktm625.jpg\" title=\"KTM 625SXC\"><\/a><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/irun100s.com\/daveharper\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/2008jan-003.jpg\" title=\"Ashley and Reggie\"><\/a>Horses on Saturday, Motorcycles on Sunday.\u00a0 What could be better?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, Ashley and I, took Reggie and Rocky to Croom for some trail riding.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a\u00a0State Park about an hour from us,\u00a0hundreds of acres of hiking,\u00a0biking\u00a0and horse trails.\u00a0\u00a0I&#8217;ve run hundreds and hundreds of training miles out there,\u00a0\u00a0now I&#8217;m starting to rack up miles on my horse.\u00a0 \u00a0 We ended up riding about 4 1\/2 hours and had a great time.\u00a0\u00a0Covering a lot of ground that we&#8217;ve never seen,\u00a0 I was on Rocky FAR longer than I ever had been.\u00a0 We did quite a bit of trotting, and though I worried about overdoing it, he never acted like he was tired, and today, Sunday, he does not seem sore.\u00a0\u00a0 He truly seems to love the trails as much as I do, he&#8217;s curious, wants to see what&#8217;s around the next bend,\u00a0 hates to stop, and always wants to be moving, and moving quickly if I&#8217;ll let him.\u00a0 I&#8217;m lovin&#8217; it.\u00a0\u00a0 Ashley and I were both exhausted when we got back to the trailer.\u00a0 Here are some photos from our day, and a couple of videos.\u00a0 Click the thumbnails to see a\u00a0larger photo, and click the link to see the video segments.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.irun100s.com\/video\/2008CroomVideo1.wmv\" title=\"Croom 2008 Video1\">Croom 2008 Video 1<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.irun100s.com\/video\/2008CroomVideo2.wmv\" title=\"Croom 2008 Video 2\">Croom 2008 Video 2<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/irun100s.com\/daveharper\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/2008febcroom1.jpg\" title=\"Ashley and Sir Reginald (Reggie)\"><img src=\"http:\/\/irun100s.com\/daveharper\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/2008febcroom1.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Ashley and Sir Reginald (Reggie)\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/irun100s.com\/daveharper\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/2008febcroom2.jpg\" title=\"Ashley and Sir Reginald (Reggie)\"><img src=\"http:\/\/irun100s.com\/daveharper\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/2008febcroom2.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Ashley and Sir Reginald (Reggie)\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/irun100s.com\/daveharper\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/2008febcroom3.jpg\" title=\"Croom Trail Ride\"><img src=\"http:\/\/irun100s.com\/daveharper\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/2008febcroom3.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Croom Trail Ride\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/irun100s.com\/daveharper\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/2008febcroom4.jpg\" title=\"Croom Trail Ride\"><img src=\"http:\/\/irun100s.com\/daveharper\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/2008febcroom4.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Croom Trail Ride\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/irun100s.com\/daveharper\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/2008febcroom6.jpg\" title=\"Croom Trail Ride\"><img src=\"http:\/\/irun100s.com\/daveharper\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/2008febcroom6.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Croom Trail Ride\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/irun100s.com\/daveharper\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/2008febcroom5.jpg\" title=\"Croom Trail Ride\"><img src=\"http:\/\/irun100s.com\/daveharper\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/2008febcroom5.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Croom Trail Ride\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/irun100s.com\/daveharper\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/2008febcroom8.jpg\" title=\"Croom Trail Ride\"><img src=\"http:\/\/irun100s.com\/daveharper\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/2008febcroom8.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Croom Trail Ride\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/irun100s.com\/daveharper\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/2008jan-003.jpg\" title=\"Ashley and Reggie\"><img src=\"http:\/\/irun100s.com\/daveharper\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/2008jan-003.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Ashley and Reggie\" \/><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Then Sunday, I was to meet a buddy for some motorcycle riding in the dirt.\u00a0 He ended up not being able to make it, but I headed out to get dirty anyway.\u00a0 I hooked up with a couple of other riders on the trails, and not a mile after that, I ran out of gas(having to turn my tank to reserve.)\u00a0 That sent me heading out of the woods, back\u00a0down the road to fill up.\u00a0 After that, I went exploring on many trails in the Withlocochee(sp?)\u00a0Forest that\u00a0I&#8217;d never been on,\u00a0and found and marked on my GPS a trailhead for some horse trails I&#8217;d also never seen before.\u00a0 Maybe a\u00a0future trip for me and Ashley.\u00a0 Never\u00a0crossed paths with\u00a0any other motorcycle riders, but did see both wild turkeys and deer.\u00a0 I rode about 75 miles total, and was so busy riding I never stopped and took any pictures.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/irun100s.com\/daveharper\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/2008febktm625.jpg\" title=\"KTM 625SXC\"><img src=\"http:\/\/irun100s.com\/daveharper\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/2008febktm625.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"KTM 625SXC\" \/><\/a>\u00a0 Back home, safe and sound.\u00a0 Awesome weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Horses on Saturday, Motorcycles on Sunday.\u00a0 What could be better? On Saturday, Ashley and I, took Reggie and Rocky to Croom for some trail riding.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a\u00a0State Park about an hour from us,\u00a0hundreds of acres of hiking,\u00a0biking\u00a0and horse trails.\u00a0\u00a0I&#8217;ve run hundreds and hundreds of training miles out there,\u00a0\u00a0now I&#8217;m starting to rack up miles on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":""},"categories":[5,6,7,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/irun100s.com\/daveharper\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/irun100s.com\/daveharper\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/irun100s.com\/daveharper\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/irun100s.com\/daveharper\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/irun100s.com\/daveharper\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=88"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/irun100s.com\/daveharper\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/irun100s.com\/daveharper\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/irun100s.com\/daveharper\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/irun100s.com\/daveharper\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}