{"id":938,"date":"2017-01-10T23:00:22","date_gmt":"2017-01-10T23:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sloeburn.co.uk\/?p=938"},"modified":"2017-01-10T23:02:23","modified_gmt":"2017-01-10T23:02:23","slug":"an-odd-and-unpleasant-undertaking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sloeburn.co.uk\/?p=938","title":{"rendered":"“An odd and unpleasant undertaking”"},"content":{"rendered":"

…was how the organiser described ‘riding the route by shortest distance’. \u00a0Because those extra 47 km to ride the route proper will make it a perfectly normal and pleasant experience.<\/p>\n

\"LEL<\/a><\/p>\n

I have entered London-Edinburgh-London<\/a>;\u00a0rider\u00a05817. \u00a0So far my longest ride has been a 200 km<\/a>. \u00a0I volunteered on Windsor-Chester-Windsor in 2015 which was not only a great experience in itself (why don’t I have a blog post about it?) but also rewarded me with a guaranteed place on LEL. \u00a0Although since I’m an AUK member I would have had one anyway, but it felt extra-specially\u00a0guaranteed. \u00a0 I have a plan, I’ve entered as many audaxes in advance as possible to build up to hopefully two 600 kms in June, and an SR series too all being well. \u00a0It will be my 40th birthday this year so I decided to mark it by doing this, and putting the remaining surgeries that I am waiting for on hold, as they will keep me off the bike for some time.<\/p>\n

As a consequence, future posts might include such exciting details as schedules, food, how much I weight, etc. \u00a0This is to aid my preparation and not because I am under the illusion that these things are in any way interesting. \u00a0If it gets really bad I’ll include details of sudocrem applications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

…was how the organiser described ‘riding the route by shortest distance’. \u00a0Because those extra 47 km to ride the route proper will make it a perfectly normal and pleasant experience. I have entered London-Edinburgh-London;\u00a0rider\u00a05817. \u00a0So far my longest ride has been a 200 km. \u00a0I volunteered on Windsor-Chester-Windsor in 2015 which was not only a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audax","category-cycling","category-lel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sloeburn.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sloeburn.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sloeburn.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sloeburn.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sloeburn.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=938"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sloeburn.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":942,"href":"https:\/\/www.sloeburn.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938\/revisions\/942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sloeburn.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sloeburn.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sloeburn.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}