{"id":734,"date":"2007-05-21T07:22:55","date_gmt":"2007-05-21T07:22:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.journeytorussia.co.uk\/2007\/05\/21\/bank-holiday-weekend-means-4-days-in-the-saddle\/"},"modified":"2011-07-14T10:25:00","modified_gmt":"2011-07-14T09:25:00","slug":"bank-holiday-weekend-means-4-days-in-the-saddle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/bank-holiday-weekend-means-4-days-in-the-saddle\/","title":{"rendered":"Bank holiday weekend means 4 days in the saddle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m going to take the opportunity to try 4 days in the saddle this weekend &#8211; the tent will go up and down 4 times, and I&#8217;ll do 180 + miles each day &#8211; the idea being of course, to simulate the kind of milage and day to day activities Russia will see us face. I&#8217;ve not done this kind of milage, or multiple camp sites before, so I think it will be a good indication of what it&#8217;s going to be like when I&#8217;m tired, possibly wet, and just need to sleep.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve got any ideas where I can head this weekend <a href=\"http:\/\/journeytorussia.co.uk\/contact\">drop me a line<\/a>, at the moment the plan is to just head north, then west, then south then home.<\/p>\n<p>The other bits to try out this weekend will be writing each night. So far I&#8217;ve been so pre-occupied with actually getting the tent up, cooking, and all that jazz that I&#8217;ve not sat down and written for the blog or searched out interesting places for our <a href=\"http:\/\/trustedplaces.com\">TrustedPlaces<\/a> reviews.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m going to take the opportunity to try 4 days in the saddle this weekend &#8211; the tent will go up and down 4 times, and I&#8217;ll do 180 + miles each day &#8211; the idea being of course, to simulate the kind of milage and day to day activities Russia will see us face&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[168,214],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-734","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\/734","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=734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}