{"id":52,"date":"2009-03-15T18:00:34","date_gmt":"2009-03-16T01:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alc8.meballard.com\/?p=52"},"modified":"2009-04-20T23:07:31","modified_gmt":"2009-04-21T06:07:31","slug":"your-first-half-century-plus-20-malibu-to-oxnard-70-miles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alc8.meballard.com\/?p=52","title":{"rendered":"Your First Half Century Plus 20 (Malibu to Oxnard, 70 miles)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After doing my nice little trek into Palos Verdes for a second Saturday in a row, I apparently decided it was a good idea to do a 70 mile ride on a back-to-back weekend.<\/p>\n<p>For this ride we met up in Malibu at the Cross Creek Shopping Center.\u00c2\u00a0 From there we rode north along PCH, along the rollers to the HOW&#8217;s supermarket (actually to the Starbucks there), after which we continued onto the Oxnard area, specifically the Port Hueneme area.\u00c2\u00a0 This was a beautiful ride along the coastline, mirroring much of the final day of riding for the actual event.\u00c2\u00a0 It was also strange since I had bicycled to an area that my dad had to drive to regularly for a while for work, and that was a long commute by car&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Most of the ride was a reasonably flat, and made for a very nice first 70 mile ride.\u00c2\u00a0 The worst part was the rollers that we had started with, that were now the end of the ride.\u00c2\u00a0 I was extremely happy when I realized I had reached the peak of the last hill right by Pepperdine, and did the final stretch into the Cross Creek shopping center.<\/p>\n<p>After the ride I met with my parents for dinner out in Malibu, where enjoying some good seafood before heading home.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<div id=\"attachment_53\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gmap-pedometer.com\/?r=2746841\" target=\"_blank\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-53\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-53\" title=\"Malibu to Oxnard\" src=\"https:\/\/alc8.meballard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/20090315.jpg\" alt=\"Malibu to Oxnard (click for full detail including mile markers)\" width=\"500\" height=\"213\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alc8.meballard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/20090315.jpg 500w, https:\/\/alc8.meballard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/20090315-300x127.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-53\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Malibu to Oxnard (click for full detail including mile markers)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After doing my nice little trek into Palos Verdes for a second Saturday in a row, I apparently decided it was a good idea to do a 70 mile ride on a back-to-back weekend. For this ride we met up in Malibu at the Cross Creek Shopping Center.\u00c2\u00a0 From there we rode north along PCH, [&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":[11,28,29],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alc8.meballard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52"}],"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=52"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/alc8.meballard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83,"href":"https:\/\/alc8.meballard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions\/83"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alc8.meballard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alc8.meballard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alc8.meballard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}