{"id":2761,"date":"2016-12-25T20:15:12","date_gmt":"2016-12-25T11:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2016-12-25\/2761"},"modified":"2016-12-25T20:15:12","modified_gmt":"2016-12-25T11:15:12","slug":"jolly-hat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2016-12-25\/2761","title":{"rendered":"Jolly Hat"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
<\/a>\n\nHat<\/span>\nthe path of today's bicycle ride through Kyoto\n<\/div>\n\n

After long rides on Wednesday<\/a> and\nThursday<\/a>, and a very<\/span> hard workout\nat the gym on Friday, my legs have been extremely sore, so today I went<\/span> on an easy “<\/span>recovery ride”<\/span>\nin the city, just to get my muscles moving a bit.<\/span><\/p>\n\n

It was nice... I go the “<\/span>KOM”<\/span> (best registered\ntime) on the highly-sought-after “<\/span>Jolly Hat”<\/span> segment<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n

Doing an image\nsearch for “<\/span>Strava art”<\/span><\/a> yields many impressive results. Some are sort\nof “<\/span>fake”<\/span>, like\nthis famous\n“<\/span>cyclist”<\/span>\ndrawing<\/a> and this \nfamous “<\/span>bear”<\/span>\ndrawing<\/a>, but many are real and amazing. (I\nput<\/span> “<\/span>fake”<\/span> in quotes because they are indeed “<\/span>art”<\/span> created via\n“<\/span>Strava”<\/span>, but\nthe route you see as a picture<\/span> is not the path the cyclist actually rode;\nsome parts are created out of thin air with digital trickery, making the result\nsubstantially less impressive in my eyes.)<\/p>\n\n

I've been wanting to do one myself, and have vaguely envisioned\nsomething impressive, but ran into the slight problem of having absolutely\nno artistic skill (except with a camera,<\/span> which doesn't help me here). So over time<\/span> I kept<\/span> lowering my sights, and finally got it low enough to make\nit a reality,<\/span> copying a simple<\/span> line drawing of a jolly<\/span> hat. Even this meager\ncreation taxed my artistic “<\/span>talents”<\/span> to their limit. Being a Sunday<\/span> morning,\ntraffic wasn't too bad; it took about 2½ hours to ride the 35km (22mi)\nof stop-and-go city streets.<\/p>\n\n

We didn't have the energy to do Christmas Cards this year, so perhaps we'll consdier this it. \/-:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After long rides on Wednesday and Thursday, and a very hard workout at the gym on Friday, my legs have been extremely sore, so today I went on an easy \"recovery ride\" in the city, just to get my muscles moving a bit.<\/p>

It was nice... I go the \"KOM\" (best registered time) on the highly-sought-after \"Jolly Hat\" segment.<\/p>

Doing an image search for \"Strava art\" yields many impressive results. Some are sort of \"fake\", like this famous \"cyclist\" drawing and this famous \"bear\" drawing, but many are real and amazing. (I put \"fake\" in quotes because they are indeed [...]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,1,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2761"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2761\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}