{"id":11474,"date":"2013-08-17T15:08:02","date_gmt":"2013-08-17T14:08:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/geoffjones.com\/?p=11474"},"modified":"2013-08-17T15:08:02","modified_gmt":"2013-08-17T14:08:02","slug":"spot-the-difference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/?p=11474","title":{"rendered":"Spot the difference?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spot the difference?<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 240px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2423\/3780724710_05562f82d0_m.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Starting off to Les Gets 2009<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_11485\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11485\" style=\"width: 240px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/IMG_3105-001.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-11485  \" alt=\"Ride 2013\" src=\"https:\/\/geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/IMG_3105-001-300x232.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11485\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ride 2013<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I thought it would be interesting to compare my two rides to Les Gets. The first ride was in August 2009 where I rode the 767 miles and in the saddle for 72.6 hours over the 10 days it took. \u00a0This time in August 2013 I travelled 774 miles with 76 hours in the saddle but over 13 days.<\/p>\n<p>The biggest differences are: \u00a0I&#8217;m now 6% older, \u00a04% lighter but \u00a0now carrying the tent and additional Danube guides etc in the two panniers making the bike weigh a total of 44 kg , in 2009 it was probably about 25kg .<\/p>\n<p>So although my average moving speed has only dropped from 10.6mph to 10.1mph (5%) the actual ground covered each day has gone from 76.7 miles to 59.5 miles a 22% reduction \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n<p>For the rest of the journey from here to Zurich and then down the Danube to The Black Sea I&#8217;m very tempted to dump the tent etc and revert back to the saddle bag. \u00a0However we will see&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Here are the tables, click to enlarge:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_11486\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11486\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/bike_2013.ods_-_LibreOffice_Calc1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11486\" alt=\"2009 bike ride stats\" src=\"https:\/\/geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/bike_2013.ods_-_LibreOffice_Calc1-300x91.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"91\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/bike_2013.ods_-_LibreOffice_Calc1-300x91.jpg 300w, https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/bike_2013.ods_-_LibreOffice_Calc1-768x234.jpg 768w, https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/bike_2013.ods_-_LibreOffice_Calc1.jpg 915w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11486\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">2009 Ride<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_11447\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11447\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/bike_2013.ods_-_LibreOffice_Calc.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11447\" alt=\"2013 ride\" src=\"https:\/\/geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/bike_2013.ods_-_LibreOffice_Calc-300x92.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"92\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11447\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">2013 ride<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spot the difference? &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; I thought it would be interesting to compare my two rides to Les Gets. The first ride was in August 2009 where I rode the 767 miles and in the saddle for 72.6 hours over the 10 days it took. \u00a0This time in August 2013 I travelled [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,20,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biking","category-personal","category-travel-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11474","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=11474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11474\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}