{"id":182,"date":"2006-12-31T11:13:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-31T11:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gentlemancyclist.co.uk\/?p=182"},"modified":"2024-01-29T11:27:57","modified_gmt":"2024-01-29T11:27:57","slug":"new-years-eve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gentlemancyclist.co.uk\/?p=182","title":{"rendered":"New Year\u2019s Eve"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Posted on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/gentlemancyclist.co.uk\/2006\/12\/31\/new-years-eve\/\"><strong>31 December 2006<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Well, that was surreal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The sky cleared this evening so, mad fool that I am, I decided to knock off the remaining 14.75 miles to meet my monthly target of 600. So I went round the block. 28 times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019m not sure, but I think I might have had a bit of insight into the wacky world of Michael Hutchinson. It\u2019s boring. And it feels like cheating! Cycling isn\u2019t supposed to be for an abstract purpose, viz. putting a number of beans in a bag. It\u2019s supposed to be for getting to work or enjoying the countryside. OK, there is a satisfaction to be had from the physical exercise, but not just for making the mileometer tick over.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Why just round the block? Well, I didn\u2019t want to meet any piss-heads and where I live, it\u2019s a short urban one-way system of two parallel residential roads. I didn\u2019t want to brave NYE traffic, and if I\u2019m going round the block, I am never more than a 5 minute walk from home in case tere is a puncture of whatever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On something like the 18th lap, a small but noisy group of teenage girls noticed me. Thereafter, I got a loud cheer every time I passed their house, and one one occasion a camera flashed. I only saw 4 moving vehicles during the entire 1 hour 21 minutes 59 seconds it took me, and one of those, bizarrely, was someone out having a driving lesson! At 11.30 p.m. on New Year\u2019s Eve!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Just for good measure, and a bit of variety, I did the last lap in the opposite direction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Posted on&nbsp;31 December 2006 Well, that was surreal. The sky cleared this evening so, mad fool that I am, I decided to knock off the remaining 14.75 miles to meet my monthly target of 600. So I went round the block. 28 times. I\u2019m not sure, but I think I might have had a bit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gentlemancyclist.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gentlemancyclist.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gentlemancyclist.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gentlemancyclist.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gentlemancyclist.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=182"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gentlemancyclist.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":183,"href":"https:\/\/gentlemancyclist.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions\/183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gentlemancyclist.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gentlemancyclist.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gentlemancyclist.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}