{"id":11329,"date":"2013-08-04T22:33:13","date_gmt":"2013-08-04T21:33:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/geoffjones.com\/?p=11329"},"modified":"2013-08-04T22:33:13","modified_gmt":"2013-08-04T21:33:13","slug":"mega-bike-ride-day-2-euston-to-whitsable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/?p=11329","title":{"rendered":"Mega bike ride &#8211; Day 2 Euston to Whitsable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/IMG_3105.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-11330\" alt=\"IMG_3105\" src=\"https:\/\/geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/IMG_3105-300x200.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/IMG_3105-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/IMG_3105.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Today started with a very emotional Sally kissing me goodbye at Kings Cross, after our Pret breakfast. Not sure if the emotion was caused by the \u00a322 single ticket fare to Cambridge (it&#8217;s only \u00a315 the other way &amp; the return is only \u00a31 more).<\/p>\n<p>After my previous fiasco navigating out of South London I decided to use the new bike mode in the iPhone Google Maps app. Obviously Google don&#8217;t expect you to be on the bike very long as it flattened the battery in less than 2 hours \ud83d\ude42 and dumped me on the wretched \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sustrans.org.uk\/ncn\/map\/route\/route-1\">Route 1 Cycleway, <\/a>Which sank to new lows today with the multiple kissing gates that aren&#8217;t \u00a0quite big enough for a touring bike and the keyholes not quite wide enough to take panniers \ud83d\ude41 Ace design lads! Additionally for a fair stretch its a \u00a0very rough pathway and it takes you past the incredibly smelly sewage works.<\/p>\n<p>A very hot &amp; hilly day necessitating many stops at petrol stations to fill up with sugar water at roughly X3 the diesel price and offering considerably less calories. (petrol has 8 MILLION calories per litre).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/IMG_5099.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-11332\" alt=\"IMG_5099\" src=\"https:\/\/geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/IMG_5099-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>After 78 miles with quite a bit on very \u00a0busy roads, I finally made it to Whitstable a town that loves its oysters and with remarkably few b&amp;b&#8217;s. A lovely surprise was a skype call from Oliver, Ren &amp; Stevie<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow its Dover &amp; the boat ride to Calais.<\/p>\n<p>This is my Strava data for today:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-11333\" alt=\"Strava_Ride___Euston_to_Whitstable\" src=\"https:\/\/geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Strava_Ride___Euston_to_Whitstable-1024x489.jpg\" width=\"625\" height=\"298\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today started with a very emotional Sally kissing me goodbye at Kings Cross, after our Pret breakfast. Not sure if the emotion was caused by the \u00a322 single ticket fare to Cambridge (it&#8217;s only \u00a315 the other way &amp; the return is only \u00a31 more). After my previous fiasco navigating out of South London I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,20,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biking","category-personal","category-travel-blogging"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11329\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}