{"id":137,"date":"2012-06-03T23:34:50","date_gmt":"2012-06-04T04:34:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bikeacrossusa.com\/blog\/?p=137"},"modified":"2012-06-04T00:06:54","modified_gmt":"2012-06-04T05:06:54","slug":"adventure-cycling-association-northern-tier-map-one-complete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bikeacrossusa.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/adventure-cycling-association-northern-tier-map-one-complete\/","title":{"rendered":"Adventure Cycling Association &#8211; Northern Tier Map One Complete"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bikeacrossusa.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Northern-Tier-map1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bikeacrossusa.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Northern-Tier-map1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"First map for Northern Tier\" title=\"Northern-Tier-map1\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-138\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.bikeacrossusa.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Northern-Tier-map1-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.bikeacrossusa.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Northern-Tier-map1.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Week 1 plus 1 day:<\/p>\n<p>Map 1 has 15 segments. We stopped in Newport, Washington on the Idaho border &#8211; there is one more segment in Map 1 that takes me to Sandpoint, ID. I have cycled 431 miles of the course. With off course miles, city rides and locating my wife in towns my total is 503 miles. <\/p>\n<p>As I previously posted, it has been frustrating not having cell phone access with t-mobile. Others have been okay with Verizon and AT&#038;T. I have not had 4G service since leaving the Seattle area. I may have to stop at libraries to upload some photos. With Internet access at the motel tonight I can catch up. Enjoy the photo gallery of the first week below.<\/p>\n<p>Three days of climbing passes has been a hard workout. I took advantage of the low gearing on my bike. The front small chain ring has 26 teeth that can be used with a 34 tooth cog on the rear. I was riding about 5 mph on the long climbs. Sometimes the speed was lower. <\/p>\n<p>Today started with a downhill. I had rolling hills and a head wind much of the day. I averaged 12.5 mph which is the best I have managed since leaving the coast area. <\/p>\n<p>On the plus side, the descents from Washington Pass and Sherman Pass are the longest downhills I have ever enjoyed. Each of theses was about 7 miles. Speeds were in the upper 20s to just over 40 mph. The heavy touring tires and the handlebar bag probably keep the speed down. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Week 1 plus 1 day: Map 1 has 15 segments. We stopped in Newport, Washington on the Idaho border &#8211; there is one more segment in Map 1 that takes me to Sandpoint, ID. I have cycled 431 miles of the course. With off course miles, city rides and locating my wife in towns my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ride-segments"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bikeacrossusa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bikeacrossusa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bikeacrossusa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bikeacrossusa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bikeacrossusa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.bikeacrossusa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":142,"href":"http:\/\/www.bikeacrossusa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions\/142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bikeacrossusa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bikeacrossusa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bikeacrossusa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}