<div id="attachment_1876" style="width: 310px" class="wp-caption alignright"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-1876" class="size-medium wp-image-1876" src="http://getrolling.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/12928136_10208197713728009_3838214520793308727_n-300x169.jpg" alt="5,000 miles and counting. No more white sidewalls and no more white handlebar tape. (It'll look cleaner more of the time!)" width="300" height="169" srcset="http://getrolling.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/12928136_10208197713728009_3838214520793308727_n-300x169.jpg 300w, http://getrolling.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/12928136_10208197713728009_3838214520793308727_n-768x432.jpg 768w, http://getrolling.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/12928136_10208197713728009_3838214520793308727_n.jpg 960w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /><p id="caption-attachment-1876" class="wp-caption-text">5,000 miles and counting. No more white sidewalls and no more white handlebar tape. (It&#8217;ll look cleaner more of the time!)</p></div>
<p style="text-align: left;">Anybody who read my <a href="http://getrolling.com/blog/2012/12/rough-day-beginner-biker/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">early biking days posts</a> will understand my delight to have passed the 5,000 mile milestone. As a little reward, I bought new tires and will soon be riding with an upgraded computer.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">What have I learned since 2013? A couple things. <span class="post-teaser-more">&nbsp;<a href="http://getrolling.com/blog/2016/04/09/the-five-thousand-mile-view/" title="Permanent Link: The Five Thousand Mile View" rel="bookmark">Read more...</a> <i>(407 words, 1 image, estimated 1:38  mins reading time)</i></span></p>{"id":1875,"date":"2016-04-09T16:44:38","date_gmt":"2016-04-09T23:44:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/getrolling.com\/blog\/?p=1875"},"modified":"2021-01-07T12:36:38","modified_gmt":"2021-01-07T19:36:38","slug":"the-five-thousand-mile-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/getrolling.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/09\/the-five-thousand-mile-view\/","title":{"rendered":"The Five Thousand Mile View"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1876\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1876\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1876\" src=\"http:\/\/getrolling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/12928136_10208197713728009_3838214520793308727_n-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"5,000 miles and counting. No more white sidewalls and no more white handlebar tape. (It'll look cleaner more of the time!)\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"http:\/\/getrolling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/12928136_10208197713728009_3838214520793308727_n-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/getrolling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/12928136_10208197713728009_3838214520793308727_n-768x432.jpg 768w, http:\/\/getrolling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/12928136_10208197713728009_3838214520793308727_n.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1876\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">5,000 miles and counting. No more white sidewalls and no more white handlebar tape. (It&#8217;ll look cleaner more of the time!)<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Anybody who read\u00a0my <a href=\"http:\/\/getrolling.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/rough-day-beginner-biker\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">early biking days posts<\/a>\u00a0will understand my delight\u00a0to have passed the\u00a05,000 mile milestone. As a little reward,\u00a0I bought new tires and will soon be riding\u00a0with an upgraded computer.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">What have I learned since 2013? A couple things. <span class=\"post-teaser-more\">&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/getrolling.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/09\/the-five-thousand-mile-view\/\" title=\"Permanent Link: The Five Thousand Mile View\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read more...<\/a> <i>(407 words, 1 image, estimated 1:38  mins reading time)<\/i><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":null,"protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[98,3,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biking","category-fitness","category-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/getrolling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/getrolling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/getrolling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/getrolling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/getrolling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1875"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/getrolling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2273,"href":"http:\/\/getrolling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1875\/revisions\/2273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/getrolling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/getrolling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/getrolling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}