{"id":964,"date":"2008-05-05T20:32:23","date_gmt":"2008-05-05T20:32:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/wordpress179\/?p=964"},"modified":"2008-05-05T20:32:23","modified_gmt":"2008-05-05T20:32:23","slug":"using-it-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thehippy.net\/blog\/using-it-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Using it up.."},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve realised something: back when I used to road race I’d always hang back, waiting for a bunch sprint to happen. <\/p>\n

In a sportive though, because of the number of riders and their varied abilities, I can smash it, safe in the knowledge that there’ll always be slower riders I can join up with when I’m shelled.<\/p>\n

There’s nowhere near the fear about blowing up too early when you can find all levels of riders to join up with compared to a race where you’re saving it all for a key point. <\/p>\n

So, I guess I’m just riding harder these days because there’s no sprint finish for me to save energy for. That and my sadistic coach ( just joking Law \ud83d\ude42 )<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve realised something: back when I used to road race I’d always hang back, waiting for a bunch sprint to happen. In a sportive though, because of the number of riders and their varied abilities, I can smash it, safe … 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":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thehippy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964"}],"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=964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thehippy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thehippy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thehippy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thehippy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}