{"id":1262,"date":"2015-01-25T15:34:34","date_gmt":"2015-01-25T23:34:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mountainbikebill.com\/blog\/?p=1262"},"modified":"2018-09-09T15:37:38","modified_gmt":"2018-09-09T23:37:38","slug":"chasing-the-sun-at-lake-hodges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mountainbikebill.com\/blog\/?p=1262","title":{"rendered":"Chasing the Sun at Lake Hodges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have been hitting up\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mountainbikebill.com\/LakeHodgesNorth.htm\">Lake Hodges<\/a>\u00a0as the after-work ride as of late.\u00a0\u00a0 It is right on the way home at it only take a handful minutes to be out on the trail after getting off the freeway.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mountainbikebill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/LakeHodge-22JAN15-01.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1780\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mountainbikebill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/imagescaler\/6d055c8fd1248fc5eff8aaa42ea7870b.jpg?resize=607%2C911\" alt=\"LakeHodge-22JAN15-01\" width=\"607\" height=\"911\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here is Nichol working a log ride.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mountainbikebill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/LakeHodge-22JAN15-11.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1782\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mountainbikebill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/imagescaler\/75ed7b17d0ef737577164edd30dd2509.jpg?resize=840%2C547\" alt=\"LakeHodge-22JAN15-11\" width=\"840\" height=\"547\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Critters seen along the trail.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mountainbikebill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/LakeHodge-22JAN15-15.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1783\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mountainbikebill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/imagescaler\/5666b40ad823be85b2a8cdb8b68b6b44.jpg?resize=840%2C560\" alt=\"LakeHodge-22JAN15-15\" width=\"840\" height=\"560\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Views from the trail behind and above the boat launch.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mountainbikebill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/20150115_165224.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1786\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mountainbikebill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/imagescaler\/89c1f2784c57e35192ee9b726ae4bb99.jpg?resize=512%2C911\" alt=\"20150115_165224\" width=\"512\" height=\"911\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A mechanical on the Tuesday ride\u00a0turned me into a reluctant single speeder.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Of course it happened right after the apex of the ride.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mountainbikebill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/LakeHodge-22JAN15-07.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1781\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mountainbikebill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/imagescaler\/a19cf1a734f19ea4a72900b8ed1d3044.jpg?resize=840%2C560\" alt=\"LakeHodge-22JAN15-07\" width=\"840\" height=\"560\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So I have not dusted my night-time riding gear in quite sometime.\u00a0 As an after-work ride in January chasing the sun is always part of the equation.\u00a0\u00a0 The sunsets have been pretty awesome as of late so \u201closing\u201d the race with the sun is its own reward.<\/p>\n<!-- Begin Yuzo --><div class='yuzo_related_post style-1'  data-version='5.12.81'><!-- without result --><div class='yuzo_clearfixed yuzo__title yuzo__title'><h3>More Stuff Like This<\/h3><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t  <div class=\"relatedthumb \" style=\"width:165px;float:left;overflow:hidden;\">  \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t  \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t  <a  href=\"http:\/\/www.mountainbikebill.com\/blog\/?p=66\"  >\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t  <div class=\"yuzo-img-wrap \" style=\"width: 165px;height:130px;\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"yuzo-img\" style=\"background:url('http:\/\/www.mountainbikebill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/imagescaler\/e58ea49deec0d495d620418b79e3813e.jpg') 50% 50% no-repeat;width: 165px;height:130px;margin-bottom: 5px;background-size: cover; 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Here is Nichol working a log ride. Critters seen along the trail. Views from the trail behind and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mountainbikebill.com\/blog\/?p=1262\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Chasing the Sun at Lake Hodges&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[33,6,5],"tags":[94],"class_list":["post-1262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-mtb","category-san-diego","category-trails","tag-lake-hodges"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6eIyB-km","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mountainbikebill.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mountainbikebill.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mountainbikebill.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mountainbikebill.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mountainbikebill.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1262"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.mountainbikebill.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1263,"href":"http:\/\/www.mountainbikebill.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1262\/revisions\/1263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mountainbikebill.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mountainbikebill.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mountainbikebill.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}