{"id":709,"date":"2007-03-21T10:49:52","date_gmt":"2007-03-21T10:49:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.journeytorussia.co.uk\/2007\/03\/21\/ready-for-the-weekend\/"},"modified":"2011-07-14T10:24:32","modified_gmt":"2011-07-14T09:24:32","slug":"ready-for-the-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/ready-for-the-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"Ready for the weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The lists are made, we&#8217;ve agreed who&#8217;s carrying what, and we&#8217;ve looked at the weather forecast. We&#8217;re ready for the weekend. We&#8217;ve deliberatly chosen to do this long run on a weekend when we have to finish work on the Friday, leave for the weekend and then go back to work on the Monday &#8211; this way we hope to copy the stresses &#8211; or at least some of the stresses that will appear on the journey.<\/p>\n<p>We talked last night about food, tents, and security; we&#8217;ve talked so much about so many of these things that now I think we &#8216;just need to get on with it&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be posting to the blog during the trip, as well as uploading photos and tracking &#8211; it&#8217;s a perfect opportunity to test our tech. I&#8217;m expecting a lot of it not to work, but we&#8217;ve got quite a long time to get this kind of thing sorted.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mattcashmore\/429155389\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/171\/429155389_7eb9aea50d.jpg?resize=479%2C358\" width=\"479\" height=\"358\" alt=\"Matt, Patrick and Stace\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The lists are made, we&#8217;ve agreed who&#8217;s carrying what, and we&#8217;ve looked at the weather forecast. We&#8217;re ready for the weekend. We&#8217;ve deliberatly chosen to do this long run on a weekend when we have to finish work on the Friday, leave for the weekend and then go back to work on the Monday &#8211; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/ready-for-the-weekend\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ready for the weekend&#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":[168,214],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-russia"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709","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=709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}