{"id":12335,"date":"2014-02-24T10:17:31","date_gmt":"2014-02-24T10:17:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/geoffjones.com\/?p=12335"},"modified":"2014-02-24T10:17:31","modified_gmt":"2014-02-24T10:17:31","slug":"rest-day-in-stung-treng-some-trip-statistics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/?p=12335","title":{"rendered":"Rest day in Stung Treng &#038; some trip statistics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"max-width: 100%;\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/\/cdn.thinglink.me\/api\/image\/494475790809825281\/1024\/10\/scaletowidth#tl-494475790809825281;1043138249\" \/><script charset=\"utf-8\" type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"\/\/cdn.thinglink.me\/jse\/embed.js\" async=\"\"><\/script><br \/>\nI&#8217;ve now been away for 23 days in SE Asia. Cycling for 15 of them and covering, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.strava.com\/athletes\/2409043\">Strava,<\/a> \u00a01.016 miles with an ascent of 33,843 feet \u00a0and 841.5 hours in the saddle. I&#8217;ve covered about 1\/3 of the total distance to Singapore! So I&#8217;ve awarded myself a total rest day here in Stung Treng before taking the ferry across the mighty Mekong \u00a0River to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Angkor_Wat\">Angkor Wat,\u00a0 <\/a>Bangkok and down the peninsula to Singapore. Although quite how I&#8217;m going to manage in this heat is anyones guess. <a href=\"https:\/\/geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/1-IMG_8172.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-12336 alignright\" alt=\"A bike mehanic in cream trousers!\" src=\"https:\/\/geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/1-IMG_8172-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Today&#8217;s puzzles are: how can a bike mechanic stay so immaculately dressed in cream trousers and pale shirt whilst fixing my puncture, I was covered in grease just by watching him at work \ud83d\ude41 \u00a0Another puzzle is how the guys running The Riverside restaurant &amp; guesthouse (where I moved to this morning) manage it \u00a0seemingly with no effort, whereas others guest house owners make it all seem so much work! So with the puncture fixed, pedals sorted, handlebar tape fixed &amp; more tape on the saddle plus a visit hairdressers today \u00a0for a cut &amp; shave for \u00a31. I&#8217;m ready to start again. But must buy more water \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve now been away for 23 days in SE Asia. Cycling for 15 of them and covering, according to Strava, \u00a01.016 miles with an ascent of 33,843 feet \u00a0and 841.5 hours in the saddle. I&#8217;ve covered about 1\/3 of the total distance to Singapore! So I&#8217;ve awarded myself a total rest day here in Stung [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biking","category-south-east-asia","category-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12335","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=12335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12335\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}