{"id":36,"date":"2014-03-19T01:20:26","date_gmt":"2014-03-19T01:20:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yiannis.co.uk\/cyclog\/?p=36"},"modified":"2014-03-19T01:20:26","modified_gmt":"2014-03-19T01:20:26","slug":"91-days-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yiannis.uk\/cyclog\/91-days-later\/","title":{"rendered":"91 Days Later"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today (well by the time this goes live it will be yesterday, so on Tuesday) I got back on the bike after a 91-day break. I cycle, mainly, to commute; my ride is 10 miles (15 km) each way. So, what are my observations after staying off the bike for 3 months?<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><span>Pain. Saddle manufacturers need to design more comfortable (read soft) saddles.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Spring (is this Spring? can it be considered as Spring) is not the best time to cycle. You wear tights, a long-sleeve jersey, a jacket and long-fingered gloves. At the start it feels a bit chilly and 15 minutes later you are boiling and sweating like a pig.<\/li>\n<li>Clip-on: They need to find a way that the cleats clip on the pedal straight away without slipping or sliding off and without banging your ankle on the crank arm or your shin on the pedal.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>That&#8217;s it, otherwise you will think that I am grumpy old man.<\/p>\n<p>I have to say that despite the sweating and the pain I enjoyed it. No cycling tomorrow (that&#8217;s today by now, Wednesday) so a bit of a rest for my backside. On Thursday morning, though, I expect the pain to be worse. I know, I know&#8230; pain is temporary.<\/p>\n<p>As far as the numbers are concerned, because we all like numbers:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span>184. My HR on the first incline in the morning.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>42:48. The time it took me to get to the office. My time should be less than 39. My PB is 33:55.<\/li>\n<li>42:12. The time it took me to get home. My PB is 34:15.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So, there is plenty of room for improvement. Oh, yes&#8230; and I need to lose some weight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today (well by the time this goes live it will be yesterday, so on Tuesday) I got back on the bike after a 91-day break. I cycle, mainly, to commute; my ride is 10 miles (15 km) each way. So, what are my observations after staying off the bike for 3 months? Pain. Saddle manufacturers&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/yiannis.uk\/cyclog\/91-days-later\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wheels-turning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yiannis.uk\/cyclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yiannis.uk\/cyclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yiannis.uk\/cyclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yiannis.uk\/cyclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yiannis.uk\/cyclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yiannis.uk\/cyclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yiannis.uk\/cyclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yiannis.uk\/cyclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yiannis.uk\/cyclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}