{"id":153,"date":"2010-08-16T13:32:18","date_gmt":"2010-08-16T12:32:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/?p=153"},"modified":"2019-01-15T22:57:07","modified_gmt":"2019-01-15T21:57:07","slug":"back-on-2-wheels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/index.php\/2010\/08\/16\/back-on-2-wheels\/","title":{"rendered":"Back on 2 wheels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I decided it was about time I got back into cycling, and as I had to visit my mother-in-law and the weather is good I thought it would be an idea time to do so (and it&#8217;s about time I made a blog post other than pet arrivals\/departures) \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>I cycled the 13.05 miles in 1:15:37 of actual cycling, at an average speed of 10.35mph and a peak speed of 25.36mph (through a 20 zone &#8211; oops!).<\/p>\n<p>My stamina is still OK because I arrived home without being out of breath, but my power is all shot to hell because hills are difficult. I had to drop to the low front gear just to get up Greenway Road!<\/p>\n<p>Traffic lights are worse than ever. Out of 39 sets of normal lights I was stopped at 22 of them (yes I know it&#8217;s unusual to see a cyclist stop at traffic lights, but I value my life) and 3 sets of pedestrian lights.<\/p>\n<p>I was pleasantly surprised, almost stunned, when a taxi stopped ahead of me before turning left to allow me to pass! There is hope for us all yet!<\/p>\n<p>There are still idiots out there though, including the one driver who passed me before a narrows just to stop right in front of me because he couldn&#8217;t get through.<\/p>\n<p>All in all a pleasant trip, and the free cyclometer I got from Kellogg&#8217;s is very well featured, if a bit bulky. I&#8217;ll see what the weather&#8217;s like tomorrow before doing it again though, I don&#8217;t fancy getting all wet in the process \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I decided it was about time I got back into cycling, and as I had to visit my mother-in-law and the weather is good I thought it would be an idea time to do so (and it&#8217;s about time &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/index.php\/2010\/08\/16\/back-on-2-wheels\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cycling","category-positives"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":679,"href":"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153\/revisions\/679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}