{"id":305,"date":"2020-11-04T02:29:25","date_gmt":"2020-11-04T02:29:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adventurescript.com\/?p=305"},"modified":"2020-11-04T02:29:27","modified_gmt":"2020-11-04T02:29:27","slug":"prison-run-at-four-notch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/adventurescript.com\/?p=305","title":{"rendered":"Prison Run at Four Notch"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For me bicycling is about community, and while spending two weeks down in Houston I was happy to find a loose affiliation of riders known as the Houston Gravel Grinders.\u00a0 Via the HGG Facebook page I met Mandi, owner of <a href=\"https:\/\/racereadyrepair.com\/\">Race Ready Repair<\/a> in Conroe, Texas, who invited me on a 44 mile gravel ride up near Huntsville.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I met Mandi, along with Benjie, Jon, Mike, Brian and Kenny at the Four Notch Hunter\u2019s parking lot\/campground the morning after a subdued COVID Halloween.\u00a0 The return to Standard Time had given us all an extra hour of sleep, which was needed in my case as I was still struggling with some jet lag.\u00a0 We rolled out of the parking lot and turned left onto some ideal gravel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"749\" src=\"http:\/\/adventurescript.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/IMG_15642-1024x749.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-307\" srcset=\"http:\/\/adventurescript.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/IMG_15642-1024x749.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/adventurescript.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/IMG_15642-300x219.jpg 300w, http:\/\/adventurescript.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/IMG_15642-768x562.jpg 768w, http:\/\/adventurescript.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/IMG_15642-1536x1124.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/adventurescript.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/IMG_15642-2048x1498.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My vision of east Texas gravel riding was rolling hills and open pastures and I was surprised to be rolling through dense pine forest.&nbsp; I reveled in the fact that I was rolling on the first day of November in short sleeves and shorts \u2013 I could get used to this southern living.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We rolled east towards Livingston Lake at a good steady pace.&nbsp; Though we saw nearly no traffic during the entire ride the roads on this route seem to be well-packed by vehicular traffic.&nbsp; The well-packed roads, gentle grades and almost no wind made for fast travel.&nbsp; We sped along at a fun pace, talking and enjoying the warm sunny day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At the lake we turned around and took a lollipop route up over Snow Hill before finally retracing our path back to the parking lot.&nbsp; On the way back we got into some good spirited riding, which was welcome given the flat packed road surface and idyllic fall weather.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This was my first experience with Texas gravel and I must say so far so good.\u00a0 I looking forward to some more adventures during my stay here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For route information see: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.strava.com\/activities\/4273077756\">https:\/\/www.strava.com\/activities\/4273077756<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For me bicycling is about community, and while spending two weeks down in Houston I was happy to find a loose affiliation of riders known as the Houston Gravel Grinders.\u00a0 Via the HGG Facebook page I met Mandi, owner of Race Ready Repair in Conroe, Texas, who invited me on a 44 mile gravel ride [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":306,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gravel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/adventurescript.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/adventurescript.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/adventurescript.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adventurescript.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adventurescript.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=305"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/adventurescript.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":308,"href":"http:\/\/adventurescript.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305\/revisions\/308"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adventurescript.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/adventurescript.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adventurescript.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adventurescript.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}