{"id":20665,"date":"2023-07-02T19:50:45","date_gmt":"2023-07-02T18:50:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.geoffjones.com\/?p=20665"},"modified":"2023-07-02T19:50:45","modified_gmt":"2023-07-02T18:50:45","slug":"the-paris-brest-paris-pbp-audax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/?p=20665","title":{"rendered":"The Paris Brest Paris (PBP) Audax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/PBP-Header.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-20668 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/PBP-Header-1024x217.png\" alt=\"PBP Course 2023\" width=\"1024\" height=\"217\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/PBP-Header-1024x217.png 1024w, https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/PBP-Header-300x64.png 300w, https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/PBP-Header-768x163.png 768w, https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/PBP-Header-1536x326.png 1536w, https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/PBP-Header-2048x435.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a>We have both qualified &amp; received our places for our first Paris-Brest -Paris ride. We completed our 200km, 300km, 400km &amp; 600km qualifying rides in Thailand. The 2023 PBP for me starts on Sunday 20th August at 19:30 and Honey at 19:00. We have 90 hours to ride the 1219km (757 miles) which makes my finishing time on Thursday 24th August at 13:30, although obviously, it can be sooner hahaha. Stop laughing I did the Isan 2020km ride with a few hours to spare!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/AA66753C-4B9F-45DE-A9CD-7F68CED336EC_1_201_a.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-20669\" src=\"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/AA66753C-4B9F-45DE-A9CD-7F68CED336EC_1_201_a-300x196.jpeg\" alt=\"June 23 Strava\" width=\"300\" height=\"196\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/AA66753C-4B9F-45DE-A9CD-7F68CED336EC_1_201_a-300x196.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/AA66753C-4B9F-45DE-A9CD-7F68CED336EC_1_201_a.jpeg 733w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>We have spent June training in the UK, The PBP course is hilly with 11,750m (38,550 feet) of ascent, or roughly 1%. Checking my Strava it looks like in June I cycled 1923km and climbed 13044m which is 0.7% so getting close. However, my average moving speed was 16.6kph obviously I need to speed up a fair bit if I want to sleep on PBP.<\/p>\n<p>I managed to get some sort of lurgy in the past few days which has had me shivering like crazy and non-stop peeing. But it seems to be clearing up fast now so hopefully training will resume tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>More to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have both qualified &amp; received our places for our first Paris-Brest -Paris ride. We completed our 200km, 300km, 400km &amp; 600km qualifying rides in Thailand. The 2023 PBP for me starts on Sunday 20th August at 19:30 and Honey at 19:00. We have 90 hours to ride the 1219km (757 miles) which makes my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,3,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audax","category-biking","category-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20665","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=20665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20665\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}