{"id":61,"date":"2007-03-08T09:29:12","date_gmt":"2007-03-08T09:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/?p=61"},"modified":"2007-03-08T09:29:12","modified_gmt":"2007-03-08T09:29:12","slug":"it-feels-bad-to-complain-but","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/it-feels-bad-to-complain-but\/","title":{"rendered":"It feels bad to complain&#8230; but&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The problem is of course I&#8217;ve not swung my legs over my supple saddle for almost a week. It&#8217;s never a good feeling to be without a throbbing lump between my legs, the air forcing its way into my lid, and the rain creeping down my neck. But when you&#8217;re staying in one of the most beautiful places in the world, surrounded by stunning views, roads and cafes, and knowing your ride is 250 miles away; it all just seems worse.<\/p>\n<p>I miss the bike. I spent a sleepless night slipping into dreams of riding through the lanes here at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.swintonpark.com\/\">Swinton Park<\/a>. I&#8217;ve got a full weekend that doesn&#8217;t include a ride, not to mention the fact I&#8217;ll be without my bike for the next three weeks, with a couple of exceptions.<\/p>\n<p>Next weekend is the TLB \/ LB <a href=\"http:\/\/londonbikers.com\/forums\/shwmessage.aspx?ForumID=52&#038;MessageID=155605\">France Ride<\/a>, fantastic! The weekend after is the <a href=\"http:\/\/journeytorussia.co.uk\/\">JTR Training run&#8230;<\/a> wonderful!<\/p>\n<p>So here&#8217;s to the weekends, the lanes, and the dreams of rides to come. But before you start to feel sorry for me, just look where I&#8217;m staying this week&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mattcashmore\/413702341\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/163\/413702341_99dc23cc29.jpg?resize=500%2C375\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"BBC Labs\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The problem is of course I&#8217;ve not swung my legs over my supple saddle for almost a week. It&#8217;s never a good feeling to be without a throbbing lump between my legs, the air forcing its way into my lid, and the rain creeping down my neck. But when you&#8217;re staying in one of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/it-feels-bad-to-complain-but\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;It feels bad to complain&#8230; but&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-ramblings"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}