{"id":573895575,"date":"2023-03-22T13:47:57","date_gmt":"2023-03-22T17:47:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573895575"},"modified":"2023-03-30T14:00:36","modified_gmt":"2023-03-30T18:00:36","slug":"a-tiny-bit-better-sorta-mostly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2023\/03\/22\/a-tiny-bit-better-sorta-mostly\/","title":{"rendered":"A tiny bit better, sorta, mostly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I felt six percent better today. And, because of that, and because I hadn&#8217;t been on my bike in 17 days, I decided to go for a little spin.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/mar23\/graphic05.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Two short Zwift routes in Scotland, though I should have stopped at one. Something happened on the second route, which featured a moderate climb near the end. Already my heart rate was elevated, of course, because I was exercising. But there I was, trying to make sure some other person didn&#8217;t get around me on the hill, so I&#8217;m pushing through some not-insubstantial watts (for me) and I felt my heart rate jump in a noticeable, unusual way. <\/p>\n<p>I was going to do another route, but suddenly I decided to listen to my body, finely tuned athletic mechanism that it is. Mostly because my legs did not want to do any more. I dismounted the bike, cleaned it up a bit, and went to sit on a stepping stool, nursing a sudden headache. Took some Ibuprofen, had a shower, had dinner and started feeling better. <\/p>\n<p>Throwing 700-plus watts while you&#8217;re fighting off my first cold since 2019 might have been a bit ambitious, in retrospect. I&#8217;ll wait a few more days before trying again.<\/p>\n<p>The good news is I am now taking fewer medicines. And the coughing is progressing nicely, thank you very much.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I felt six percent better today. And, because of that, and because I hadn&#8217;t been on my bike in 17 days, I decided to go for a little spin. Two short Zwift routes in Scotland, though I should have stopped at one. Something happened on the second route, which featured a moderate climb near 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-573895575","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\/573895575","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=573895575"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573895575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573895576,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573895575\/revisions\/573895576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573895575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573895575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573895575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}