{"id":846,"date":"2011-05-12T12:03:27","date_gmt":"2011-05-12T12:03:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.phillconnell.com\/blog\/?p=846"},"modified":"2017-01-12T04:19:20","modified_gmt":"2017-01-12T04:19:20","slug":"motivation-may100-maladies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.phillconnell.com\/blog\/motivation-may100-maladies\/","title":{"rendered":"<b>Motivation #May100 Maladies<\/b>"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>This May Motivation Malarky<\/h2>\n<p>I&#8217;ve noticed that the 30 Days Of Biking was a brilliant idea for most of us, urging us to take advantage of the Spring weather to put some miles in. \u00a0Since May began, I&#8217;m seeing people struggling to get the bikes out.<\/p>\n<p>Why is that? \u00a0I know that the May weather&#8217;s not been as good as April here in the UK. \u00a0I know that the effort of riding 30 times in April is a Herculean one (<em>which I didn&#8217;t achieve by the way<\/em>). \u00a0I know that motivation commonly works in cycles and that a pause is a natural reaction to a flurry.<\/p>\n<p>I just hope that we all get back into a sustainable habit soon. \u00a0It&#8217;s reassuring to read that everyone else seems to struggle finding the time and desire to open the shed door, but it&#8217;s more motivational to read about the times you <strong>do<\/strong> get out, to see the photos you <strong>do<\/strong> take, and to enjoy your rides by proxy whilst dreaming about the one I&#8217;m planning to do this Sunday\/Tuesday\/whenever.<\/p>\n<p>Go on. Open the shed.<\/p>\n<h2>Shopping Advice Request<\/h2>\n<p>OK, so this isn&#8217;t usually a forum where I ask you how to spend my money, but:<\/p>\n<p><strong>1. SDG Bel Air or Charge Spoon saddle?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>2. 661 Recon helmet? In the light shade? 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On arrival, our first thought was \"Ooooh, pants\" as the hill up to\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Rides&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.phillconnell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMAG0158.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":818,"url":"https:\/\/www.phillconnell.com\/blog\/march-review-mar100-superstars\/","url_meta":{"origin":846,"position":5},"title":"March Review. #Mar100 Superstars.","date":"2 April 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"That Was The Month That Was I hope you enjoyed some riding in March.\u00a0 I did.\u00a0 Once again, I didn't hit the 100 miles but I clocked just over 70 and I'm chuffed to have done so.\u00a0 The best ride was over to Bury from our Rochdale home to buy\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Cycling Challenges&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phillconnell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phillconnell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phillconnell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phillconnell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phillconnell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=846"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.phillconnell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3771,"href":"https:\/\/www.phillconnell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846\/revisions\/3771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phillconnell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phillconnell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phillconnell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}