{"id":39,"date":"2009-03-29T18:09:19","date_gmt":"2009-03-30T01:09:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alc8.meballard.com\/?p=39"},"modified":"2009-04-20T20:20:35","modified_gmt":"2009-04-21T03:20:35","slug":"marina-bundy-recovery-ride-weho-to-santa-monica-to-westchester-50-miles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alc8.meballard.com\/?p=39","title":{"rendered":"Marina-Bundy Recovery Ride (WeHo to Santa Monica to Westchester, 50 miles)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I took a nice ride into Santa Monica to Helen&#8217;s Cycles, which was the beginning of the training ride.\u00c2\u00a0 From there we headed down along the coast up into the Playa Del Rey and Westchester.\u00c2\u00a0 The original route would&#8217;ve taken me right past work on Westchester Parkway, but that segment was cancelled due to Westchester Parkway being closed (I heard it was for some kind of race).<\/p>\n<p>After traveling back up into Santa Monica and up San Vicente, there was an optional loop up Bundy Dr (which gets up near but not as high as Mount Saint Mary&#8217;s College).\u00c2\u00a0 I opted to do the loop, although I initially missed a weird Bundy turn (you have to turn to stay on Bundy), and ended up going initially up the wrong street until I reliazed that I wasn&#8217;t on Bundy, and then turning around to come back (and notified one other rider who made the same mistake).\u00c2\u00a0 After cutting up Sunset to Bundy, I then went all the way and back down Bundy, which was a nice pleasant climb, and then a fun decent back down, returning back to Helen&#8217;s Cycles.\u00c2\u00a0 Finally I bicycled back home into West Hollywood to give my legs a needed break, especially after yesterday&#8217;s climbing).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<div id=\"attachment_40\" style=\"width: 512px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gmap-pedometer.com\/?r=2746430\" target=\"_blank\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-40\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-40\" title=\"Marina-Bunch Recovery Ride\" src=\"https:\/\/alc8.meballard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/20090329.jpg\" alt=\"Marina-Bunch Recovery Ride (click to view details)\" width=\"502\" height=\"594\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alc8.meballard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/20090329.jpg 502w, https:\/\/alc8.meballard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/20090329-253x300.jpg 253w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 502px) 100vw, 502px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-40\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marina-Bunch Recovery Ride (click to view details)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I took a nice ride into Santa Monica to Helen&#8217;s Cycles, which was the beginning of the training ride.\u00c2\u00a0 From there we headed down along the coast up into the Playa Del Rey and Westchester.\u00c2\u00a0 The original route would&#8217;ve taken me right past work on Westchester Parkway, but that segment was cancelled due to Westchester [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[23,21,22,10,20],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alc8.meballard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alc8.meballard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alc8.meballard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alc8.meballard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alc8.meballard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/alc8.meballard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43,"href":"https:\/\/alc8.meballard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions\/43"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alc8.meballard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alc8.meballard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alc8.meballard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}