{"id":32393,"date":"2025-06-10T15:48:21","date_gmt":"2025-06-10T19:48:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=32393"},"modified":"2025-06-10T15:48:21","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T19:48:21","slug":"it-worked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=32393","title":{"rendered":"It worked&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;as you know, I have been feeling lots of pain on the bike and I had to try to figure out what the heck was going on&#8230;so, I decided to cut back to only two rides and 25 miles a day starting last Saturday&#8230;that made me feel like a slug but the fruits of that decision showed themselves today when I rode both rides without pain for the first time since I started to ride outdoors this year&#8230;no thigh or knee pain or any tricep pain either and that has been killing me for better than a month&#8230;the only bad thing about that is it makes me feel like my body has just given up some of it&#8217;s capability that I&#8217;ll never get back&#8230;but I am going to try to start alternating 25 and 38 mile days just to see what happens&#8230;and I do need to train for the &#8220;ride my age&#8221; day that has to happen before my birthday in July&#8230;I did go crazy at Menards today and bought car wash soap and a new bottle of Meguiar&#8217;s wax along with a new wash mitt since the old one is 15 years old an getting pretty raggety&#8230;so I spent a hundred bucks today that I shouldn&#8217;t have&#8230;oh, well&#8230;I can always not buy anything next week&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;as you know, I have been feeling lots of pain on the bike and I had to try to figure out what the heck was going on&#8230;so, I decided to cut back to only two rides and 25 miles a day starting last Saturday&#8230;that made me feel like a slug but the fruits of that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=32393\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">It worked&#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-32393","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\/32393","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=32393"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32395,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32393\/revisions\/32395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}