{"id":12712,"date":"2008-06-02T06:53:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-02T06:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kpstaged.apps-1and1.net\/2008\/06\/02\/road-ridin\/"},"modified":"2008-06-02T06:53:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-02T06:53:00","slug":"road-ridin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.citrus-lime.com\/keep\/2008\/06\/02\/road-ridin\/","title":{"rendered":"Road ridin’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, that’s the Polka Dot Gran Fondo<\/a> over for another year. I remembered it as long climbs followed by scorching descents through some of the best roads in the Peak District and surrounding areas, in blazing sunshine<\/span>. That was a couple of years ago though. This year it started to rain just after we set out and just about continued for most of the day and my riding partner got a flat. This shouldn’t be happening on the first of June? Anyway most looked like they were smiling through the rain and enjoying it – even if some triathletes got their fig rolls a touch damp.<\/p>\n

So, even though we only <\/span>completed the short 72 mile course we’ve easily clocked up well over 200 miles on the bike this week, hurrah. Just a couple more weeks of increasing time in the saddle and then it’s a quick taper for <\/a>Mountain Mayhem<\/a><\/span><\/a><\/span> Then we’ll probably be obsessing about Hit the North<\/a> instead. Just off to check out some tyres….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well, that’s the Polka Dot Gran Fondo over for another year. I remembered it as long climbs followed by scorching descents through some of the best roads in the Peak District and surrounding areas, in blazing sunshine. That was a couple of years ago though. This year it started to Read More<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":102,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"connors","author_link":"https:\/\/blog.citrus-lime.com\/keep\/author\/connors\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.citrus-lime.com\/keep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.citrus-lime.com\/keep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.citrus-lime.com\/keep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.citrus-lime.com\/keep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.citrus-lime.com\/keep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.citrus-lime.com\/keep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12712\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.citrus-lime.com\/keep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.citrus-lime.com\/keep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.citrus-lime.com\/keep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}