{"id":21089,"date":"2020-10-11T14:50:50","date_gmt":"2020-10-11T18:50:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=21089"},"modified":"2020-10-11T14:50:50","modified_gmt":"2020-10-11T18:50:50","slug":"5000-miles-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=21089","title":{"rendered":"5,000 miles…part 2…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well…yesterday I wrote some about my 5,000 mile year on the bike but I didn’t talk much about the physical effects of the ordeal…and yes, it was an ordeal that I am going to take quite a while to recover from…there were some good effects….I lost 3 inches off my waist and my clothes are hanging off me and I look a little thin as compared to normal…and my thighs are huge and have definition in them I’ve never had….but, I am just damn worn out…so tired all the time when I keep doing 30+ miles a day…I know part of that is from lack of sleep…and that is confusing since you would think that so many miles would tire me out and I would sleep well every day…but my best days are around 5 hours and I don’t think that is enough to support 5k miles….and, with being tired, I am sore and stiff all the time…I know part of that is from getting old but not to the extent that I feel it every day….so now, I think I need to start the repair process for my whole body by gradually reducing the amount I ride along with the calories I consume…but cutting 600 plus calories out of my day means no more bagels with my coffee…and no more cheese and crackers or cocktails….okay, I’ll cut the cocktails in half but damn, what the hell am I saving my liver for? I am old and I don’t know how long I have and I like my cocktail nights…and the repair process has to include my mental state, too…I have to admit to myself that the guilt I feel from not riding has to be put away and I need to understand that I won’t recover until I cut back on riding for a while at least….so, one ride today and there was no way I was going back out in the 15 mph wind when my legs went flat at about 12 miles on the first run….it will be interesting to see if I did any permanent damage from doing the 5K this year…that would suck…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well…yesterday I wrote some about my 5,000 mile year on the bike but I didn’t talk much about the physical effects of the ordeal…and yes, it was an ordeal that I am going to take quite a while to recover from…there were some good effects….I lost 3 inches off my waist and my clothes are … Continue reading 5,000 miles…part 2…<\/span> →<\/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-21089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-life","tag-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21089"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21090,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21089\/revisions\/21090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}