{"id":12294,"date":"2024-09-11T12:09:18","date_gmt":"2024-09-11T10:09:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/?p=12294"},"modified":"2024-09-11T12:09:18","modified_gmt":"2024-09-11T10:09:18","slug":"time-spent-cycling-hiking-and-walking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/time-spent-cycling-hiking-and-walking\/","title":{"rendered":"Time Spent Cycling, Hiking and Walking"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><p>This year I have spent 350 hours hiking and walking according to Strava. In contrast I have spent just 44 hours cycling. If I had spent as much time cycling as I did walking then my cycling fitness would be higher than it is at the moment. <\/p>\n<p>Part of me wishes that I had spent more time cycling but another part of me spends less time cycling than walking because finding safe cycling paths is not so easy in a place as densely populated as the Arc L\u00e9manique.<\/p>\n<p>There are plenty of agricultural roads to be enjoyed but for some absurd people cars choose to drive along them, rather than main roads. The result is that finding a road that is quiet and safe for cycling is difficult. The second challenge is that cycling roads are usually sparse, and disconnected.<\/p>\n<p>If you cycle between Morges and Rolle you spend a lot of time on the road hoping that people give you a safe margin, before finally getting to the cycle lanes between Rolle and Gland, but even in Gland the cycling routes are designed for slow cyclists, not fast ones. You&#8217;re forced to stop, you lose priority with cars. It&#8217;s a mess.<\/p>\n<p>I bring this up because what stopped me from cycling, aside from my bike being in another village, is that I didn&#8217;t know of safe routes that I could ride and enjoy.<\/p>\n<p>In theory the pleasant cycling season has ended and now we&#8217;re into the Autumn experience, where gloves and warmer clothes are needed.<\/p>\n<p>This year I may cycle into the cooler Autumn months, mainly because none of my walking routes are pleasant anymore. As I write about the cool air for cycling, I am using it to cool down the structure of my apartment, to make it more pleasant once again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span>This year I have spent 350 hours hiking and walking according to Strava. In contrast I have spent just 44 hours cycling. If I had spent as much time cycling as I did walking then my cycling fitness would be higher than it is at the moment. Part of me wishes that I had spent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12230,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"federated","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[20,255,9],"tags":[733,837,1245,4490,1158],"class_list":["post-12294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-observation","category-swiss-walks","category-tech-related","tag-cycling","tag-metrics","tag-quantified","tag-seasons","tag-weather"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12294"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12295,"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12294\/revisions\/12295"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}