{"id":328,"date":"2009-09-23T02:07:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-23T02:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/wordpress\/?p=328"},"modified":"2009-09-23T02:07:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-23T02:07:00","slug":"happy-bike-to-work-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/2009\/09\/23\/happy-bike-to-work-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Bike to Work Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I cycled to work today for the 6th time this month. When I woke up, the radio announcer said it was walk, bike or take public transit to work<\/i> day (or in some places it’s called curb your car<\/i> day). I thought, now I have even more of a reason! I’m cycling tomorrow and Friday too this week.<\/div>\n
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My commute isn’t too far and we even bought a house specifically so my commute wouldn’t be long and so I could cycle on occasion. We live 8 km<\/a> from my work so it’s not too bad – 22 minutes there and 27 minutes back (more hills and against the wind). I average 22 km\/hr. Since we have only one car, it’s handy for Amber when I cycle too (and I don’t have to bum rides from other teachers).<\/div>\n
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I geared up my bike a bit more on Sunday after stopping in at MEC<\/a> (the first time I’ve been to the Calgary branch since the Bike trip in July, 2003). Since I go in before it’s fully light out on Fridays, I picked up a set of lights and an ankle reflector. I also needed some standard bike care equipment, so before I knew it I had 6 items when I meant to get 2. But it’s cool.<\/div>\n
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The one real hassle of biking to work is having to maintain a wardrobe at the school. It’s quite time consuming to get changed before and after school (though I save time throwing on my shorts and jersey at home).<\/div>\n
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The best part of cycling to work is how amazing I feel. I drink more water. I have so much more energy. I’m more cheerful. It’s pretty awesome.<\/div>\n
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I cycled to work today for the 6th time this month. When I woke up, the radio announcer said it was walk, bike or take public transit to work day (or in some places it’s called curb your car day). I thought, now I have even more of a reason! I’m cycling tomorrow and Friday … [Read more…]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1382,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,27,29,30],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-admin","4":"post-328","6":"format-standard","7":"has-post-thumbnail","8":"category-health","9":"category-sports","10":"category-travel","11":"category-zr"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}