{"id":21726,"date":"2019-04-05T15:19:38","date_gmt":"2019-04-05T14:19:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/armanios.co.uk\/dev\/sia\/?p=21726"},"modified":"2019-04-12T14:31:56","modified_gmt":"2019-04-12T13:31:56","slug":"way-of-the-roses-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/armanios.co.uk\/dev\/sia\/way-of-the-roses-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Richard Clark, Way of the Roses &#8211; Day One"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-21758 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/armanios.co.uk\/dev\/sia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/RC-1-244x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"244\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/armanios.co.uk\/dev\/sia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/RC-1-244x300.jpeg 244w, https:\/\/armanios.co.uk\/dev\/sia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/RC-1-600x738.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/armanios.co.uk\/dev\/sia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/RC-1-768x945.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/armanios.co.uk\/dev\/sia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/RC-1-41x50.jpeg 41w, https:\/\/armanios.co.uk\/dev\/sia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/RC-1-98x120.jpeg 98w, https:\/\/armanios.co.uk\/dev\/sia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/RC-1.jpeg 780w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 244px) 100vw, 244px\" \/>My preparation for <a href=\"https:\/\/armanios.co.uk\/dev\/sia\/events\/sias-eastern-european-adventure-2\/\">SIA&#8217;s Eastern European Adventure<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>We left morecambe at 9am. \u00a0Sunny day to start with and an easy ride out to and through Lancaster on the cycleways which included a visit to Lancaster prison.\u00a0 Unfortunately, they released us to head into a 23 mph head wind which we had all the way to the end of day one. \u00a0To be honest it was an absolute killer, have never riden in such a wind.<\/p>\n<p>We climbed 4000 feet including one ascent from Settle of 1400 feet so with a headwind we were almost stationary trying the climb. \u00a0Fabulous downhill journey to recover where I reached 38.3mph taking the trophy for day one. I won by 0.5mph so day two will be interesting.<\/p>\n<p>Amazing scenery and a great experience but aching more than I or any of the group expected.<\/p>\n<p>Now having a beer and relaxing before heading off tomorrow at 9am for day two with the day ending in York.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/armanios.co.uk\/dev\/sia\/way-of-the-roses-2\/\">Read how the second day went.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My preparation for SIA&#8217;s Eastern European Adventure We left morecambe at 9am. \u00a0Sunny day to start with and an easy&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":739,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[354,231],"tags":[361,358,357,317,360,359],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/armanios.co.uk\/dev\/sia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21726"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/armanios.co.uk\/dev\/sia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/armanios.co.uk\/dev\/sia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armanios.co.uk\/dev\/sia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/739"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armanios.co.uk\/dev\/sia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/armanios.co.uk\/dev\/sia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21726\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/armanios.co.uk\/dev\/sia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armanios.co.uk\/dev\/sia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armanios.co.uk\/dev\/sia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}