{"id":772,"date":"2017-01-07T12:48:31","date_gmt":"2017-01-07T17:48:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/extremephysiology\/?p=772"},"modified":"2017-02-06T13:17:31","modified_gmt":"2017-02-06T18:17:31","slug":"mountain-biking-50-luck-50-pain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/extremephysiology\/2017\/01\/07\/mountain-biking-50-luck-50-pain\/","title":{"rendered":"Mountain Biking: 50% Luck, 50% Pain"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yet another day in the desert of Tucson has passed filled with deception and lies, but I\u2019ll get to that shortly.<\/p>\n

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Stellar views<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Stellar riders<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It began this morning when, luckily, we were able to transport some mountain bikes by van over to Saguaro National Park, a site we biked to a couple days before.\u00a0 Dr. Sweeney led us on a few of Saguaro\u2019s \u201cbeginner\u201d mountain biking trails.\u00a0 Within the first five minutes, five brand new mountain bikers were going downhill at 90\u00b0 over boulders, barrel cacti, and other people\u2019s bikes.\u00a0 That may be a bit exaggerated, but not by much.\u00a0 We swiftly returned, got onto an easier course, and had a great time learning the ropes of our new favorite activity.<\/p>\n

There were many falls (myself included), but perhaps the best (and by that I mean funniest) was Cameron\u2019s bloody encounter with the always-feared \u201cJumping Cholla.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Jumping Cholla extraction<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Our skills were overestimated, and we were taken on courses a little over our heads, but I think we had the last laugh when our fearless leader was a bit too ambitious himself. Oops!<\/p>\n

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When the Fearless Leader loses against ruts and boulders<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Our first mountain biking episode ended, and we went back to the house for a quick turnover so that a few of us could drive up to Mount Lemmon for the sunset.\u00a0 Making it up with some time to spare we made a couple of snowballs, definitely made it in time to eat some cookies from \u201cThe Mt. Lemmon Cookie Cabin,\u201d and stopped at a couple of scenic overlooks.\u00a0 We\u2019ve all been impressed with the scenery in AZ.\u00a0 It\u2019s truly unlike anything we have ever seen before, and pictures don\u2019t do it justice, but here\u2019s an attempt at capturing the sunset from Windy Point Vista:
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As the day came to an end, we, of course, stopped at the grocery store to pick up the essentials \u2013 brownie mix.\u00a0 Little did we know that Tara had prepared a betrayal that would rival Brutus\u2019 assassination of Caesar by making bean brownies. Yes, bean.\u00a0 Black beans pur\u00e9ed and put into brownie mix.\u00a0 We were even told that there would be a normal batch.\u00a0 No such batch was prepared.\u00a0 I\u2019ll never admit that the brownies were great, but I did eat quite a few \u2013 we all did.\u00a0 All in all, today was a blast.\u00a0 Can\u2019t wait to see what is in store for the next one.<\/p>\n

-Anthony<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yet another day in the desert of Tucson has passed filled with deception and lies, but I\u2019ll get to that shortly. It began this morning when, luckily, we were able to transport some mountain bikes by van over to Saguaro National Park, a site we biked to a couple days before.\u00a0 Dr. Sweeney led us … Continue reading Mountain Biking: 50% Luck, 50% Pain<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":164,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","hentry","category-2017-blogs","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/extremephysiology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/extremephysiology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/extremephysiology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/extremephysiology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/164"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/extremephysiology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=772"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/extremephysiology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":792,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/extremephysiology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772\/revisions\/792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/extremephysiology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/extremephysiology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/extremephysiology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}