{"id":4516,"date":"2021-02-07T16:39:54","date_gmt":"2021-02-07T16:39:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scotlund.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4516"},"modified":"2021-02-07T16:39:56","modified_gmt":"2021-02-07T16:39:56","slug":"ride-07-02-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scotlund.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4516","title":{"rendered":"Ride 07\/02\/2021"},"content":{"rendered":" <p> <em><a href=\"https:\/\/connect.garmin.com\/modern\/activity\/6235765896#.X0EAzkOKB8s.wordpress\">Ride 07\/02\/2021<\/a><\/em> <\/p> \n <p> Well it had snowed through the night, that powdery stuff, so I didn&#8217;t ride in the morning I waited until after I had lunch to see if things would improve a bit, unfortunately not really. It&#8217;s wasn&#8217;t raining\/snowing like yesterday this was replaced with hail but it was just as windy <span class=\"wp-font-emots-emo-unhappy\"><\/span> So for the first 30 miles i was ok since I had a tailwind but the last 20 miles were brutal! I was riding into a strong headwind with hail in my face, a thousand tiny bee stings on my face. The wind was energy sapping and the last 20 miles my avg speed dropped big time. I had managed to maintain over 17 mph for the first 30 miles but this was wind assisted <span class=\"wp-font-emots-emo-happy\"><\/span> that last 20 miles dropped it to under 15 mph <span class=\"wp-font-emots-emo-displeased\"><\/span> I was also starting to get cold towards the end of the ride so I was very thankful for a hot shower when I got home. <\/p> \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" <p> Ride 07\/02\/2021 Well it had snowed through the night, that powdery stuff, so I didn&#8217;t ride in the morning I waited until after I had lunch to see if things would improve a bit, unfortunately not really. It&#8217;s wasn&#8217;t raining\/snowing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scotlund.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4516\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <\/p> \n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-notes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scotlund.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scotlund.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scotlund.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scotlund.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scotlund.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4516"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.scotlund.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4517,"href":"https:\/\/www.scotlund.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4516\/revisions\/4517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scotlund.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scotlund.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scotlund.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}