{"id":511,"date":"2011-09-11T09:37:31","date_gmt":"2011-09-11T08:37:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.randomjottings.co.uk\/wpress\/?p=511"},"modified":"2014-02-12T10:09:56","modified_gmt":"2014-02-12T10:09:56","slug":"overcoming-the-stiffness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/randomjottings.co.uk\/?p=511","title":{"rendered":"Overcoming the Stiffness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bright and cool morning, so I&#8217;ve decided to get the bike out. Had a day off yesterday but my legs got progressively stiffer as the day went on. Better to keep moving I suppose.<\/p>\n<p>Took my regular weekend route along the canal to Slattocks, but this time followed a bit further and then took the country lanes around the back of Stake Hill Industrial Estate and up to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tandle_Hill\" title=\"Tandle Hills\" target=\"_blank\">Tandle Hills Country Park<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Eventually, the canal towpath will be part of National Cycle Route 66, but at the moment after Slattocks it seems to be a selection of cobbles, unpaved sections and granite chippings, none of which are too pleasant to ride.<\/p>\n<p>The lanes up to Tandle Hills are mostly unpaved with odd sections of chippings, but at least you&#8217;re expecting the going to be tough and apart form the odd &#8220;why am I doing this?&#8221; moment as I battled up a hill covered in chippings the route isn&#8217;t too bad.<\/p>\n<p>Coming out past Tandle Hills park I got onto Tandlewood Park which in hindsight may have been a mistake. The gradient got the better of me and I had to push for about a hundred yards.<\/p>\n<p>After that the brief climb up Oldham Road was a doddle and then a rapid descent down the other side to get back home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bright and cool morning, so I&#8217;ve decided to get the bike out. Had a day off yesterday but my legs got progressively stiffer as the day went on. Better to keep moving I suppose. Took my regular weekend route along the canal to Slattocks, but this time followed a bit further and then took the [&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-511","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\/511","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=511"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/randomjottings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":743,"href":"http:\/\/randomjottings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511\/revisions\/743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomjottings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomjottings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomjottings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}