{"id":27,"date":"2009-03-15T14:42:15","date_gmt":"2009-03-15T14:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nobugs.org\/lejog\/?p=27"},"modified":"2009-03-15T18:56:44","modified_gmt":"2009-03-15T18:56:44","slug":"the-lang-whang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nobugs.org\/lejog\/?p=27","title":{"rendered":"The Lang Whang"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-28\" title=\"The Lang Whang\" src=\"http:\/\/nobugs.org\/lejog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/langwhang-300x179.jpg\" alt=\"The Lang Whang\" width=\"300\" height=\"179\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nobugs.org\/lejog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/langwhang-300x179.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nobugs.org\/lejog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/langwhang.jpg 469w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve always thought the <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.co.uk\/maps?f=d&amp;source=s_d&amp;saddr=edinburgh&amp;daddr=carnwath&amp;hl=en&amp;geocode=&amp;mra=ls&amp;sll=55.813629,-3.438721&amp;sspn=0.342606,1.235962&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;ll=55.834458,-3.339844&amp;spn=0.342423,1.235962&amp;z=10\">Lang Whang<\/a> was a strange name for a road, but it&#8217;s certainly descriptive.\u00a0 Long, hilly, goes through the middle of nowhere &#8211; well, Carstairs\/Carnwath to Edinburgh anyway.\u00a0 The best bit about the route is that, once you are past Tarbrax, you get a huge amount of high speed downhilling into Edinburgh.\u00a0 Even once you&#8217;re back in the city, the route through Juniper Green is top-gear speed-camera-taunting stuff.<\/p>\n<p>The magic numbers for today were: 65 miles in 4h13m, averaging 15mph, and my hrm says 125bpm average.\u00a0 The ride was fueled by a multistage breakfast (cereal, bacon sandwich, big pancake, 2 cups of tea), a litre of liquid (sports juice and water), one fruit&amp;nut chocolate bar, two caramel wafers, half a packet of wine gums and a banana.\u00a0 I feel like a machine for turning chocolate into heat.<\/p>\n<p>After yesterday&#8217;s hill riding I did a lot of stretches and felt totally fine this morning.\u00a0 I never used to bother stretching, until last year I went to a yoga class and realised how tight\/short my leg muscles were.\u00a0 Now I&#8217;m much more aware of this, I don&#8217;t just think &#8216;oh well, my legs must just be sore from cycling&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Mmm, large amounts of tasty food await &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8211; Sponsor me at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.justgiving.com\/andrewbirkett_lejog\">http:\/\/www.justgiving.com\/andrewbirkett_lejog<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve always thought the Lang Whang was a strange name for a road, but it&#8217;s certainly descriptive.\u00a0 Long, hilly, goes through the middle of nowhere &#8211; well, Carstairs\/Carnwath to Edinburgh anyway.\u00a0 The best bit about the route is that, once you are past Tarbrax, you get a huge amount of high speed downhilling into Edinburgh.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nobugs.org\/lejog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nobugs.org\/lejog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nobugs.org\/lejog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nobugs.org\/lejog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nobugs.org\/lejog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.nobugs.org\/lejog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33,"href":"https:\/\/www.nobugs.org\/lejog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions\/33"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nobugs.org\/lejog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nobugs.org\/lejog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nobugs.org\/lejog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}