{"id":2899,"date":"2009-09-03T10:36:45","date_gmt":"2009-09-03T10:36:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vu2057.freddie.1984.is\/siggimustest\/?p=2899"},"modified":"2022-10-07T10:21:03","modified_gmt":"2022-10-07T10:21:03","slug":"adventures-in-cycling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/siggimus.com\/siggimus\/2009\/09\/03\/adventures-in-cycling\/","title":{"rendered":"adventures in cycling"},"content":{"rendered":"

although the ‘cycle to work’ project has long ended, siggimus heroically & unselfishly still cycles to work<\/a> a lot. you could say it’s to save the environment, you could say he’s a good man. actually, you could say a lot of things about siggimus, all but three of them good<\/p>\n

this has unwittingly put him on a rollercoaster ride of life, with hair-raising ups & gut-wrenching downs<\/p>\n

let us examine two random examples from the last 25 hours<\/p>\n

25 hours ago<\/h3>\n

being the superhero he is, siggimus managed personal best time ever, 00:16:00 – sixteen minutes flat<\/p>\n

without even trying so much<\/p>\n

an admirable feat considering how it took just over 21 mins the first time he cycled that route. & in all probability this is a world record, although siggimus is of course too modest to claim it<\/p>\n

a superhuman feat considering his best time before that was 00:16:42. he bested his best time a whole 42 seconds. usain bolt, busain smolt<\/p>\n

this means an average speed of 26,3 km\/h. slightly less than bolt’s average, but bolt didn’t have to go through a near vertical maze of a graveyard, so there<\/p>\n

30 mins ago<\/h3>\n

the morning was humid<\/p>\n

dark clouds secretly gathered in the distance, evilly plotting to thwart siggimuses happy plans & rain on his parade & bug him a bit<\/p>\n

blissfully unaware of the plotting of the clouds, siggimus heads out in good spirit, merrily cycling away over the wet asphalt, joyfully circumventing any & all puddles, sufjan stevens caressing both of his ears gently<\/p>\n

flies past b\u00f3nus, burns through yard, crosses that street, dring-dring!-get-out-of-siggimuses-important-way,-man!<\/p>\n

clouds a-plotting<\/p>\n

whooooooshes! down hill that’s much less fun when you come the other way<\/p>\n

clouds cease their foul plotting & get ready to smite<\/p>\n

siggimus is approx. 50 cm onto that fateful other street when suddenly, as if by pure cloud-magic, a tiny but sturdy car that wasn’t there before appears out of nowhere, heading directly for siggimus in a slow, but determined fashion, aiming to maim him in the awfullest of ways, leaving him incapable of cycling or baking betty crocker ever again<\/p>\n

with the agility and swiftness of a cat, siggimus swerves out of way, activates turbo-legs & (ironically!) in a burst of cloud, disappears out of the way of that tiny but sturdy killing machine, whose navigator looked pale as a bucket<\/p>\n

 
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another day, another near death experience<\/p>\n

thankfully siggimus has a broad back & strong bones in it. mere humans would likely crack under this kind of stress<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

although the ‘cycle to work’ project has long ended, siggimus heroically & unselfishly still cycles to work a lot. you could say it’s to save the environment, you could say he’s a good man. actually, you could say a lot of things about siggimus, all but three of them good this has unwittingly put him […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[14],"tags":[48,67],"class_list":["post-2899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pics","tag-cycling","tag-life"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcQPg2-KL","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/siggimus.com\/siggimus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/siggimus.com\/siggimus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/siggimus.com\/siggimus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siggimus.com\/siggimus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siggimus.com\/siggimus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2899"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/siggimus.com\/siggimus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9182,"href":"https:\/\/siggimus.com\/siggimus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2899\/revisions\/9182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/siggimus.com\/siggimus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siggimus.com\/siggimus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siggimus.com\/siggimus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}