{"id":162,"date":"2009-09-15T09:36:10","date_gmt":"2009-09-15T09:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ride4acure.com.au\/?p=162"},"modified":"2009-09-15T09:39:56","modified_gmt":"2009-09-15T09:39:56","slug":"15th-september","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ride4acure.com.au\/?p=162","title":{"rendered":"15th September"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TRAINING UPDATE: My training is full steam ahead with weekly rides of over 100km range plus my weekly total over the 200km mark. I&#8217;m also keeping up with gym training 2-3 times a week and stretching each day.\u00a0 I&#8217;m getting so strong and feel positively <strong><em>dangerous!<\/em><\/strong> I face the normal challenges of <strong><em>the-learner-intraining-soon-to-be-long-distance-cyclist <\/em><\/strong>which includes such things as headwinds, failing brakes, bugs in my eyes, overheating, sweat stinging and streaming into eyes, swooping magpies EVERYWHERE, I had half a dozen attacks on Sunday on a 102km ride, the magpies swoop from behind and &#8216;clink&#8217; my helmet with their claws or beaks, I sing out to them to &#8216;Go Hard Maggie!&#8217; I had the thought of sticking some of those crafty eye balls people use on toys onto the top of my helmet, however I decided that would definately shift me right into the <strong>FREAKO <\/strong>category of bike rider!\u00a0 I&#8217;ve seen a couple of other riders with 20cm stick thingo&#8217;s poking out of their helmets (I did wonder at the time if they were OK &#8212;<em>hhmm hhhmmm&#8230;<\/em>) but now me thinks they&#8217;re one step ahead of me and my marauding magpie mates!!<\/p>\n<p>CATTLE SALE: 19th Sept at Kempsey Sale Yards two head of stock donated to date from Coggie &amp; Linda Wilshusen of McCoys Creek Moparrabah, who have donated a Brahman steer we&#8217;ve nicknamed &#8220;Daffodil&#8221;, \u00a0and also Steve &amp; Anne Bryson from Beechwood with a young limousin bull. This is an awesome donation from very generous livestock producers.<\/p>\n<p>DINNER DANCE and Auction: Saturday\u00a026th Sept Kempsey Golf Club 6pm. At the <a href=\"http:\/\/ride4acure.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/26.9-poster-dinner-dance-ride4acure-web-33.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-176\" title=\"26.9 poster dinner dance ride4acure web 3\" src=\"http:\/\/ride4acure.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/26.9-poster-dinner-dance-ride4acure-web-33-106x150.jpg\" alt=\"26.9 poster dinner dance ride4acure web 3\" width=\"106\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>, dance away to &#8220;The Nobodies&#8221;, who were awesome at our previous dinner dance on 5th Sept.\u00a0 Tickets are selling fast and are available from Silver Dollar Saddlery in Belgrave St Kempsey ph Suzie Argue on 0265621899 to enquire about tickets and bookings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TRAINING UPDATE: My training is full steam ahead with weekly rides of over 100km range plus my weekly total over the 200km mark. I&#8217;m also keeping up with gym training 2-3 times a week and stretching each day.\u00a0 I&#8217;m getting so strong and feel positively dangerous! I face the normal challenges of the-learner-intraining-soon-to-be-long-distance-cyclist which includes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ride4acure.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ride4acure.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ride4acure.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ride4acure.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ride4acure.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=162"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/ride4acure.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":177,"href":"http:\/\/ride4acure.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162\/revisions\/177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ride4acure.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ride4acure.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ride4acure.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}