{"id":573893007,"date":"2021-02-10T21:41:27","date_gmt":"2021-02-11T02:41:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573893007"},"modified":"2021-02-13T18:06:54","modified_gmt":"2021-02-13T23:06:54","slug":"whirring-sounds-from-the-bike-room","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2021\/02\/10\/whirring-sounds-from-the-bike-room\/","title":{"rendered":"Whirring sounds from the bike room"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I came home this evening and hoped on the bike. I&#8217;ve been doing an eight stage tour of the Zwift worlds to start the year and tonight was the conclusion, it was flat and fast. I rode around the storied Champs-\u00c9lys\u00e9es a few times. Look, you can see the Eiffel Tower: <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/feb21\/graphic01.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the course, the loop at the top is around the iconic Arc de Triomphe.  <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/feb21\/graphic02.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>We visited there on a trip (remember those?) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2015\/05\/18\/paris-part-two\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">in 2015<\/a>: <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/may15\/may90.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the view from the top:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/may15\/may98.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>(More of that trip to Paris, <a TARGET=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2015\/05\/18\/paris-part-one\/\">here<\/a> and <a TARGET=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2015\/05\/18\/paris-part-three\/\">here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>And that wrapped up my Tour de Zwift. But I needed some more miles, so I picked a route in London and saw the Clock Tower at the Palace of Westminster a few times.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/feb21\/graphic03.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Not quite as nice as the real thing, but it will do just fine for a cold and snow-covered evening.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/june13\/june106.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>(You can see more of my visit to London <a TARGET=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2013\/06\/17\/visiting-london\/\">here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>I was riding very fast, for me, which means average for most people. It was a fine mid-week workout. Now I have to go catch my breath.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I came home this evening and hoped on the bike. I&#8217;ve been doing an eight stage tour of the Zwift worlds to start the year and tonight was the conclusion, it was flat and fast. I rode around the storied Champs-\u00c9lys\u00e9es a few times. Look, you can see the Eiffel Tower: Here&#8217;s the course, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573893007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cycling","category-wednesday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573893007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573893007"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573893007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573893010,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573893007\/revisions\/573893010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573893007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573893007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573893007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}