{"id":129,"date":"2008-07-22T21:03:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-22T21:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.andrewtully.com\/?p=129"},"modified":"2008-07-22T21:03:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-22T21:03:00","slug":"ambitious-cycle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.andrewtully.com\/?p=129","title":{"rendered":"Ambitious cycle&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a little over a week of no running and I&#8217;m feeling very fidgety. So myself &amp; Joe decided to dust off the push bikes and head out for a long cycle. I got my new Garmin 405 watch this week and am dying to give it a go. As we live in neighbouring towns we met half way and decided to head north and, snaking around country lanes, we&#8217;d edge easterly towards the canal and back towards Naas.<\/p>\n<p>It may seem obvious now but cycling uses a whole different set of muscles to running. After 5 miles I was aching in places I&#8217;d never felt before. After mile 8 I couldn&#8217;t help asking the question: what sadist designed bicycle saddles? What was s\/he thinking?<\/p>\n<p>According to my new toy we cycled a total of 18.76 miles, exactly. And the knees; they were OK but during the last 5 miles I could feel them but nothing serious.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a little over a week of no running and I&#8217;m feeling very fidgety. So myself &amp; Joe decided to dust off the push bikes and head out for a long cycle. I got my new Garmin 405 watch this week and am dying to give it a go. As we live in neighbouring [&hellip;]<\/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-129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewtully.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewtully.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewtully.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewtully.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewtully.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewtully.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewtully.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewtully.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewtully.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}