{"id":533,"date":"2012-08-28T15:21:52","date_gmt":"2012-08-28T15:21:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tjkopena.com\/blogs\/outdoors\/?p=533"},"modified":"2012-08-28T15:21:52","modified_gmt":"2012-08-28T15:21:52","slug":"friday-night-track","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tjkopena.com\/blogs\/outdoors\/2012\/08\/friday-night-track\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Night Track!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Caitlin and I went up to T-town last Friday. \u00a0A couple monkey girls were racing so we had free tickets for the finish line bleachers.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d actually never been up to the track for Friday night racing before, so it was interesting. \u00a0Overall I thought it was cool, but a bit too much of a drive to do very often compared to my relative level of interest and limited connections to the track community. \u00a0I was actually a bit surprised how few people I knew that were there that night.<\/p>\n<p>It was fun though, and a great cycling hangout. \u00a0Being way up there in all that space, it had a nice summer country fair feel to it. \u00a0Just with bikes and spandex instead of pigs and corn. \u00a0As a bonus, the fast food place on-site has a couple vegetarian, apparently organic items that didn&#8217;t blow my mind but were definitely edible.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_534\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-534\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tjkopena.com\/blogs\/outdoors\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/track1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-534\" title=\"track1\" src=\"http:\/\/tjkopena.com\/blogs\/outdoors\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/track1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-534\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The women&#8217;s keirin final gets up to speed.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_535\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-535\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tjkopena.com\/blogs\/outdoors\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/track2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-535 \" title=\"track2\" src=\"http:\/\/tjkopena.com\/blogs\/outdoors\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/track2-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-535\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sally (the starter) lays down the law as Julia (left rider) gets ready for a match sprint heat.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_536\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-536\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tjkopena.com\/blogs\/outdoors\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/track3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-536\" title=\"track3\" src=\"http:\/\/tjkopena.com\/blogs\/outdoors\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/track3-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-536\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Peanut butter monkey girl!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>One thing that was indisputably great was just how many juniors were there. \u00a0There must have been a good fifty kids between 9 and 13 years old, boys and girls, that took part in various races. \u00a0Some of them were on bikes tinier than Caitlins&#8217;!<\/p>\n<p>There are just a couple more pictures in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/tjkopena\/sets\/72157631251212212\/\">Flickr gallery<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Caitlin and I went up to T-town last Friday. \u00a0A couple monkey girls were racing so we had free tickets for the finish line bleachers. I&#8217;d actually never been up to the track for Friday night racing before, so it was interesting. \u00a0Overall I thought it was cool, but a bit too much of a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tjkopena.com\/blogs\/outdoors\/2012\/08\/friday-night-track\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Friday Night Track!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[13,28,68,69,77],"class_list":["post-533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-road","tag-bikes","tag-food","tag-track","tag-trexlertown","tag-velodrome"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tjkopena.com\/blogs\/outdoors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tjkopena.com\/blogs\/outdoors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tjkopena.com\/blogs\/outdoors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tjkopena.com\/blogs\/outdoors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tjkopena.com\/blogs\/outdoors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tjkopena.com\/blogs\/outdoors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tjkopena.com\/blogs\/outdoors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tjkopena.com\/blogs\/outdoors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tjkopena.com\/blogs\/outdoors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}