{"id":3868,"date":"2013-11-20T09:27:49","date_gmt":"2013-11-19T20:27:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dfmamea.com\/?p=3868"},"modified":"2013-11-20T09:27:49","modified_gmt":"2013-11-19T20:27:49","slug":"notch-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/notch-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Notch Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a couple of months of no running, I bought a bike \u2014 meet <b>Gazza<\/b>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/111027.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3869\" alt=\"111027\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/111027.jpg?resize=525%2C394\" width=\"525\" height=\"394\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/111027.jpg?w=669&amp;ssl=1 669w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/111027.jpg?resize=640%2C480&amp;ssl=1 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I took the bike on a couple of my usual running routes in what I assumed would be an easy transition back to sweaty guilt-ridding exercise.<\/p>\n<p>The five\u2013kilometre clover\u2013leaf route on asphalt should\u2019ve been a doddle on a bike. Except I\u2019d forgotten that:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>it had been a long couple of months since I&#8217;d had any aerobic exercise; and<\/li>\n<li>the terrain around Fortress Mamea is a bit hilly \u2014 good for virtuous hill-climbing but not so good when going downhill and flashing on a down\u2013hill biking accident I had when I was younger (and lighter) (and fitter).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Undeterred, I thought the local forest trail \u2014 a not\u2013quite\u2013eight\u2013kilometre return route \u2014 would be pretty straight\u2013forward.<\/p>\n<p>Ah, <b>no<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>If I thought going downhill on asphalt was retraumatising, going downhill over gravel the size of my fists was \u2014 there are no other words for it \u2014 fucking <i>terrifying<\/i>. After the first moderate hill decline, I <i>walked<\/i> the bike down the long steep portions and, due to my lack of fitness, pushed the bike up those same long steep portions.<\/p>\n<p>I was so grateful to be alive I took a selfie on the way back:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/131112.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3873\" alt=\"131112\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/131112.jpg?resize=480%2C640\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019d like to resume <a href=\"http:\/\/dfmamea.com\/2007\/07\/28\/runs\/\" target=\"_blank\">running<\/a> now, please.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a couple of months of no running, I bought a bike \u2014 meet Gazza: I took the bike on a couple of my usual running routes in what I assumed would be an easy transition back to sweaty guilt-ridding exercise. The five\u2013kilometre clover\u2013leaf route on asphalt should\u2019ve been a doddle on a bike. Except &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/notch-update\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Notch Update&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1025,332,239],"class_list":["post-3868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scriptwriting","tag-biking","tag-exercise","tag-running"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3868"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3895,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3868\/revisions\/3895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}