{"id":518,"date":"2023-02-28T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-28T02:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.iceman.com\/?p=518"},"modified":"2023-02-28T08:11:09","modified_gmt":"2023-02-28T02:11:09","slug":"how-often-do-you-ride-with-a-few-thousand-other-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.iceman.com\/index.php\/2023\/02\/28\/how-often-do-you-ride-with-a-few-thousand-other-people\/","title":{"rendered":"How often do you ride with a few thousand other people?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As I\u2019ve mentioned before, this is a BIG event. Especially in terms of participation. With over 50 waves and hundreds of competitors in each wave, this is probably the most people you\u2019ll likely be around on single track all year. What does that mean? That means you don\u2019t always get to pick the line you want. That means your opportunities to pass slower riders will be limited. That means YOU will be getting passed as well. Often. You can let all of that impact you, get in your head and slow you down. OR you can come to peace with it and use it to your advantage. As much as all trails have a certain \u201cflow\u201d to them, so does riding in a larger group. Get into that flow &#8211; and go!\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"840\" height=\"558\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.iceman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/cPIzx4fk.jpeg?resize=840%2C558&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-519\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.iceman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/cPIzx4fk.jpeg?w=2048&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.iceman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/cPIzx4fk.jpeg?resize=300%2C199&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.iceman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/cPIzx4fk.jpeg?resize=768%2C510&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.iceman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/cPIzx4fk.jpeg?resize=1536%2C1020&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.iceman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/cPIzx4fk.jpeg?resize=1200%2C797&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.iceman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/cPIzx4fk.jpeg?w=1680&amp;ssl=1 1680w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>About the author:<\/strong> Kurt Schaldenbrand has been racing bicycles since 1983. He\u2019s been a licensed coach working with competitive and developmental cyclists since 1990 and has been head coach for the University of Michigan Cycling team since 2012.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I\u2019ve mentioned before, this is a BIG event. Especially in terms of participation. With over 50 waves and hundreds of competitors in each wave, this is probably the most people you\u2019ll likely be around on single track all year. What does that mean? That means you don\u2019t always get to pick the line you &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.iceman.com\/index.php\/2023\/02\/28\/how-often-do-you-ride-with-a-few-thousand-other-people\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;How often do you ride with a few thousand other people?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[18],"tags":[69,165,72,139,179,141],"class_list":["post-518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-training","tag-iceman","tag-iceman-cometh-challenge","tag-kalkaska","tag-training","tag-training-tips","tag-traverse-city"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.iceman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.iceman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.iceman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.iceman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.iceman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=518"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.iceman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":521,"href":"https:\/\/blog.iceman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518\/revisions\/521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.iceman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.iceman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.iceman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}