{"id":34277,"date":"2026-05-21T17:37:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T21:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=34277"},"modified":"2026-05-21T17:37:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T21:37:12","slug":"dead-on-the-bike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=34277","title":{"rendered":"Dead on the bike&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Well&#8230;I did get the laundry done today but not much else&#8230;coming back from the 2nd ride I was just dead on the bike&#8230;and I know I whine about this a lot but I don&#8217;t think half a chicken breast and two spoonfuls of pasta salad was enough to support riding 26 miles a day for the past week&#8230;so today I had a chicken sandwich with some pasta salad for lunch and then 2 pieces of pizza for dinner and that should be enough to get started on tomorrow..it&#8217;s been a while since I felt so lousy on the bike but that&#8217;s what happens when you balance calorie intake on a fine edge&#8230;I did see a tiny, tiny snapping turtle hatchling on the trail today and had to stop to pick it up and move into the grass at Heritage Landing where I think he was heading toward water&#8230;have seen quite a few snappers out here and I hope this one survives&#8230;the trip to Ollie&#8217;s was a bust since they didn&#8217;t have anything I wanted but that&#8217;s pretty normal&#8230;I did put the top down for the errands today and even at 48 degrees it was fun&#8230;and I got more books so I&#8217;ll have them for the weekend&#8230;okay, back to reading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;I did get the laundry done today but not much else&#8230;coming back from the 2nd ride I was just dead on the bike&#8230;and I know I whine about this a lot but I don&#8217;t think half a chicken breast and two spoonfuls of pasta salad was enough to support riding 26 miles a day for &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=34277\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Dead on the bike&#8230;<\/span> <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":[39],"tags":[41],"class_list":["post-34277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-life","tag-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34277"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34278,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34277\/revisions\/34278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}