{"id":961,"date":"2008-05-03T11:42:09","date_gmt":"2008-05-03T11:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/wordpress179\/?p=961"},"modified":"2008-05-03T11:42:09","modified_gmt":"2008-05-03T11:42:09","slug":"commute-pb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thehippy.net\/blog\/commute-pb\/","title":{"rendered":"Commute PB"},"content":{"rendered":"

After a night of Belgian beers at our new ‘local’ the Creechurch Lane LowLander<\/a>, followed by a Shami kebab (Dave Lister style!) and a curry on Brick Lane and a late ride home, I didn’t think I’d be setting any speed records the next morning. Well, it seems beer and curry are indeed rocket fuel!<\/p>\n

The ride in to work took 40:33 or thereabouts, a full 5 minutes faster than my previous best commute time. <\/p>\n

Drafting everything on the road and actually using the big ring for a change helped. Oh, in case you’re wondering I was riding the Ribble since I snapped the brake cable on the Cnutster\/Twatster\/Langster the other day and didn’t want to ride it brakeless in the pissing rain. The same morning, after swapping bikes, I snapped a spoke on the Ribble! Cycle Surgery couldn’t find a replacement Mavic Cosmos spoke so the whole bike wobbles like a mental.. and I still set a PB on it. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After a night of Belgian beers at our new ‘local’ the Creechurch Lane LowLander, followed by a Shami kebab (Dave Lister style!) and a curry on Brick Lane and a late ride home, I didn’t think I’d be setting any … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thehippy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/961"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thehippy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thehippy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thehippy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thehippy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thehippy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/961\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thehippy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thehippy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thehippy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}