{"id":470,"date":"2011-08-22T18:08:53","date_gmt":"2011-08-22T17:08:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.randomjottings.co.uk\/wpress\/?p=470"},"modified":"2014-02-12T10:10:40","modified_gmt":"2014-02-12T10:10:40","slug":"practice-makes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/randomjottings.co.uk\/?p=470","title":{"rendered":"Practice Makes&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Did a couple of practice runs this weekend, one a nice flat route along the canal, the other a test of the route I&#8217;m planning on using up the hill to work.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m still finding that the slightest gradient has me gasping for air, but I&#8217;m sure that my stamina will build up in time.<\/p>\n<p>On the advice of one of my work colleagues, I&#8217;ve raised my saddle and upped the pressure in the tyres. Since the bike came with none of the tools I need (such as a pump) I&#8217;ve had to pick them up over the weekend. The tyres, which felt solid to the touch were actually half the pressure they needed to be.<\/p>\n<p>The adjustments seem to have made some difference, but maybe that&#8217;s just the placebo effect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did a couple of practice runs this weekend, one a nice flat route along the canal, the other a test of the route I&#8217;m planning on using up the hill to work. I&#8217;m still finding that the slightest gradient has me gasping for air, but I&#8217;m sure that my stamina will build up in time. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[63],"class_list":["post-470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-outdoors","tag-cycling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomjottings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomjottings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomjottings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomjottings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomjottings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=470"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/randomjottings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":750,"href":"http:\/\/randomjottings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470\/revisions\/750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomjottings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomjottings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomjottings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}