{"id":546,"date":"2009-06-14T18:13:25","date_gmt":"2009-06-14T18:13:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/?p=546"},"modified":"2009-06-14T18:13:25","modified_gmt":"2009-06-14T18:13:25","slug":"personal-transportation-day-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/?p=546","title":{"rendered":"Personal Transportation &#8211; Day II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think it is best to start this post with &#8216;ouch my %#$^\u00a3 arse!!!&#8217;&#8230;.. not said once during the trip, but said many many times throughout. Especially after getting off and forcing ourselves to get back on the bikes! OH and that just didn&#8217;t come from Mike, my butt too was hurting from yesterday.\u00a0 It&#8217;s amazing how tender it gets when you haven&#8217;t ridden a bike for a prolonged period of time. For at least a large number of months. Even years!<\/p>\n<p>I am sure it can only get better the more you ride (here&#8217;s hoping)!<\/p>\n<p>Even starting off on today&#8217;s travels was a bit daunting. We made a few bike adjustments (seats, brakes etc) from yesterday throughout our venture in the hope that it would assist our aching bits.\u00a0 We didn&#8217;t go as far as we had planned due to the obvious issues. But we did manage to bike up some hills and then coast down the other side, and of course we stopped at a pub to rest our dear butts for a bit&#8230;. Then back on and off to get some groceries.<\/p>\n<p>On the return trip (please note laden down with some very, very heavy groceries on our backs) we stopped at a little park to recover somewhat before heading back up the bloody hill and came across a number of little ducks lined up in a row (very cute) waiting to dive into the water&#8230;.\u00a0 But because we disturbed them a bit they kinda huddled together to get in there even quicker and we were too slow on the camera shots to get the row pics, but we got some pics of their quick getaway.\u00a0 It was still a good excuse to stop for a minute! And any excuse would do for Mike!<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><img alt=\"ducks.JPG\" id=\"image545\" src=\"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/ducks.JPG\" \/><\/div>\n<p>All in all I would have to say Mike faired much better today.\u00a0 But I am just not so sure he will be able to walk tomorrow. And I am not so sure that I will be able to race him to the tube tomorrow morning either. Give me a run any day!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think it is best to start this post with &#8216;ouch my %#$^\u00a3 arse!!!&#8217;&#8230;.. not said once during the trip, but said many many times throughout. Especially after getting off and forcing ourselves to get back on the bikes! OH and that just didn&#8217;t come from Mike, my butt too was hurting from yesterday.\u00a0 It&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}