{"id":19284,"date":"2018-06-28T05:54:57","date_gmt":"2018-06-28T05:54:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.longrides.bike\/?page_id=19284"},"modified":"2018-06-28T05:54:57","modified_gmt":"2018-06-28T05:54:57","slug":"back-of-the-pack-september-2006","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.longrides.bike\/?page_id=19284","title":{"rendered":"Back of the Pack &#8211; September 2006"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During one of those archeological domestic explorations &#8211; otherwise known as &#8220;cleaning out the desk&#8221; &#8211; my wonderful hubby found this piece of whimsy he had secreted away for nearly a dozen years.\u00a0 It harks back to the days when I dreamed of being a full-time bike racer, and submitting my literary pieces to prestigious publications to further enhance my earnings and reputation.\u00a0 I never heard back from Australian Triathlete &#8211; and went back to my day job.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.longrides.bike\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Back-of-the-Pack-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-19288 size-full aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.longrides.bike\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Back-of-the-Pack-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"850\" height=\"1098\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.longrides.bike\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Back-of-the-Pack-1.jpg 850w, https:\/\/www.longrides.bike\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Back-of-the-Pack-1-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/www.longrides.bike\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Back-of-the-Pack-1-768x992.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.longrides.bike\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Back-of-the-Pack-1-793x1024.jpg 793w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.longrides.bike\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Back-of-the-Pack-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19290 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.longrides.bike\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Back-of-the-Pack-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"850\" height=\"940\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.longrides.bike\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Back-of-the-Pack-2.jpg 850w, https:\/\/www.longrides.bike\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Back-of-the-Pack-2-271x300.jpg 271w, https:\/\/www.longrides.bike\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Back-of-the-Pack-2-768x849.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.longrides.bike\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/new-black-bike-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-19296 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.longrides.bike\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/new-black-bike-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"270\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.longrides.bike\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/new-black-bike-2.jpg 960w, https:\/\/www.longrides.bike\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/new-black-bike-2-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.longrides.bike\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/new-black-bike-2-768x1023.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.longrides.bike\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/new-black-bike-2-769x1024.jpg 769w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 270px) 100vw, 270px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.longrides.bike\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Back-of-the-Pack-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19291 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.longrides.bike\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Back-of-the-Pack-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"849\" height=\"977\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.longrides.bike\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Back-of-the-Pack-3.jpg 849w, https:\/\/www.longrides.bike\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Back-of-the-Pack-3-261x300.jpg 261w, https:\/\/www.longrides.bike\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Back-of-the-Pack-3-768x884.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 849px) 100vw, 849px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.longrides.bike\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Back-of-the-Pack-4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19292 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.longrides.bike\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Back-of-the-Pack-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"850\" height=\"774\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.longrides.bike\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Back-of-the-Pack-4.jpg 850w, https:\/\/www.longrides.bike\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Back-of-the-Pack-4-300x273.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.longrides.bike\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Back-of-the-Pack-4-768x699.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Written ~ September 2006 (published online 28 June 2018)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During one of those archeological domestic explorations &#8211; otherwise known as &#8220;cleaning out the desk&#8221; &#8211; my wonderful hubby found this piece of whimsy he had secreted away for nearly a dozen years.\u00a0 It harks back to the days when I dreamed of being a full-time bike racer, and submitting my literary pieces to prestigious &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.longrides.bike\/?page_id=19284\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Back of the Pack &#8211; September 2006<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19295,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.longrides.bike\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19284"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.longrides.bike\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.longrides.bike\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.longrides.bike\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.longrides.bike\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19284"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.longrides.bike\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19297,"href":"https:\/\/www.longrides.bike\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19284\/revisions\/19297"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.longrides.bike\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.longrides.bike\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}