{"id":21,"date":"2009-08-24T09:21:09","date_gmt":"2009-08-24T09:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.goatsurfer.com\/retromtb\/?p=20"},"modified":"2013-08-19T08:44:57","modified_gmt":"2013-08-19T08:44:57","slug":"sunday-road-ride-feel-the-pain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goatsurfer.com\/retromtb\/?p=21","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Road Ride &#8211; Feel the pain&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">Trying to build up the quads so took a painful road route yesterday on my Pace, It&#8217;s Loop Three on my personal list of stuff near to where I live that I can ride from by front door with no driving involved. The route runs into Rockingham, through Caldecott to Uppingham and up to Rutland Water in Rutland then back home.<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\" \/><br style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\" \/><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">Some boring facts&#8230;Rutland is the smallest County in the UK I believe and measures only 18miles by 17 miles, has only two towns and perhaps the coolest of all, its the only County in the entire United Kingdom with no McDonald&#8217;s restaurants <\/span><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/retromtb.goatsurfer.com\/_images\/emoticons\/em.icon.approve.gif?w=620\" \/><br style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\" \/><br style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\" \/><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">There&#8217;s some serious gradients on this route, the worst being in the last 10 minutes of the ride where the road passes <\/span><a style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rockinghamcastle.com\/\">Rockingham Castle<\/a><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">, the climb runs from 171ft to 446ft in 0.87 miles and had my heart trying to punch its way through my ribcage like Alien <\/span><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/retromtb.goatsurfer.com\/_images\/emoticons\/em.icon.shocked.gif?w=620\" \/><br style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\" \/><br style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\" \/><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">I really should have a road bike but they suck so this was done on a Pace RC200 F6 with 2.1 mud tyres<\/span> <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/retromtb.goatsurfer.com\/_images\/emoticons\/em.icon.blush.gif?w=620\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/retromtb.goatsurfer.com\/Clip.jpg?w=620\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight: bold;\">Them hills<\/span><br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/retromtb.goatsurfer.com\/Clip_2.jpg?w=620\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight: bold;\">Rutland Water<\/span><br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/retromtb.goatsurfer.com\/Rutland_water.jpg?w=620\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trying to build up the quads so took a painful road route yesterday on my Pace, It&#8217;s Loop Three on my personal list of stuff near to where I live that I can ride from by front door with no &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/goatsurfer.com\/retromtb\/?p=21\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,12],"tags":[39,253,252],"class_list":["post-21","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main-page","category-rides","tag-pace","tag-rc200","tag-rutland"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hERH-l","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goatsurfer.com\/retromtb\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goatsurfer.com\/retromtb\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goatsurfer.com\/retromtb\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goatsurfer.com\/retromtb\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goatsurfer.com\/retromtb\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/goatsurfer.com\/retromtb\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":314,"href":"https:\/\/goatsurfer.com\/retromtb\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions\/314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goatsurfer.com\/retromtb\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goatsurfer.com\/retromtb\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goatsurfer.com\/retromtb\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}