{"id":77551,"date":"2022-12-27T22:20:55","date_gmt":"2022-12-27T22:20:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/?p=77551"},"modified":"2022-12-27T22:20:55","modified_gmt":"2022-12-27T22:20:55","slug":"festive-500-ride-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/festive-500-ride-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Festive 500 &#8211; Ride #4"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Festive 500 Ride #4\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cJhP55-IwTE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Ride #4 of this year&#8217;s Festive 500 was the longest of my rides so far, heading out in the pre-dawn from Sheringham on the North Norfolk coast, southeast along the coast through Cromer, Overstrand, and down to Winterton-on-Sea where the seals gather on the beach. I stopped for a warm tea at the van (it was cold today), and a snack to fuel me on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I reached the village of California (<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/California_(disambiguation)#United_Kingdom\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/California_(disambiguation)#United_Kingdom\">there are a few in the UK<\/a>) inland via the Norfolk Broads National Park towards Wroxham. Then it was northwest back towards my starting point via the town of Aylsham and the impressive Blickling Hall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.strava.com\/activities\/8297659435\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.strava.com\/activities\/8297659435\">The full route is on Strava<\/a>, although note that a short section was along a sandy footpath that required me to get off and walk. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I now have 126KM still to ride, although Wednesday&#8217;s weather does not look good &#8211; wet and windy. So I may leave it until closer to New Year&#8217;s Eve to knock off the final ride. In any case, my Garmin was suggesting 61 hours off the bike!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ride #4 of this year&#8217;s Festive 500 was the longest of my rides so far, heading out in the pre-dawn from Sheringham on the North Norfolk coast, southeast along the coast through Cromer, Overstrand, and down to Winterton-on-Sea where the seals gather on the beach. I stopped for a warm tea at the van (it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":77552,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,21],"tags":[56,557],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77551"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77551"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77553,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77551\/revisions\/77553"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}