{"id":215,"date":"2013-03-25T15:58:15","date_gmt":"2013-03-25T15:58:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lucyandtim.co.uk\/blog\/?p=215"},"modified":"2013-03-25T15:58:15","modified_gmt":"2013-03-25T15:58:15","slug":"oxford-to-oddington-and-home-16-5-miles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lucyandtim.co.uk\/blog\/londontoparis\/2013\/03\/25\/oxford-to-oddington-and-home-16-5-miles\/","title":{"rendered":"Oxford to Oddington and home, 16.5 miles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We were supposed to cycle 50 miles on Sunday but bike maintenance issues resulted in a slow start. \u00a0When we finally got going it didn&#8217;t take us long to get thoroughly cheesed off with the bitterly cold head wind and at times hail. \u00a06 miles into the ride and we were cold and grumpy. \u00a07 miles in and we had had enough. Our early training rides were undertaken in somewhat peculiar winter garb (see previous post). \u00a0In the hope of fooling ourselves into thinking we are proper cyclists, we recently updated our cycling wardrobe with an injection of Lycra. \u00a0Unfortunately we made our purchases with spring in mind. \u00a0It is not up to winter conditions. \u00a0When it started to lightly snow we decided to call it a day and go home after a slight diversion to Oddington. The place didn&#8217;t seem that odd to us although they appear to allow their children to drive.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_219\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lucyandtim.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/P1030526.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-219\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-219 \" alt=\"Oddington\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lucyandtim.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/P1030526-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-219\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Children &#8211; The careful drivers of Oddington.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We were supposed to cycle 50 miles on Sunday but bike maintenance issues resulted in a slow start. \u00a0When we finally got going it didn&#8217;t take us long to get thoroughly cheesed off with the bitterly cold head wind and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lucyandtim.co.uk\/blog\/londontoparis\/2013\/03\/25\/oxford-to-oddington-and-home-16-5-miles\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lucyandtim.co.uk\/blog\/londontoparis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lucyandtim.co.uk\/blog\/londontoparis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lucyandtim.co.uk\/blog\/londontoparis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucyandtim.co.uk\/blog\/londontoparis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucyandtim.co.uk\/blog\/londontoparis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lucyandtim.co.uk\/blog\/londontoparis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lucyandtim.co.uk\/blog\/londontoparis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucyandtim.co.uk\/blog\/londontoparis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucyandtim.co.uk\/blog\/londontoparis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}