{"id":2156,"date":"2008-04-05T15:52:50","date_gmt":"2008-04-05T15:52:50","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2026-04-18T22:58:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T22:58:21","slug":"preparing-for-races","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/?p=2156","title":{"rendered":"Preparing for races"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday I was about to participated on the first outdoor training session with Rye (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sportsklubbenrye.no\">http:\/\/www.sportsklubbenrye.no<\/a>). I lasted only five kilometers before one of the spokes on my front wheel snapped and I had to return home. So on Wednesday I went down to http:\/\/www.fast-bikes.no with my bike so that they could fix it. Got kinda expensive as well, since I bought a new wheelset Mavic Ksyrium Elite http:\/\/www.mavic.com\/road\/products\/Ksyrium-Elite.995153.aspx I guess I will go waaaaay much faster now \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve also put my name on the helmet. This is needed when we have a pace line chain, when I&#8217;m the last one in the slow chain the man in the fast chain will shout out my name letting me know that I must switch chain and follow his rear wheel. Since we are so many it is a neat trick to have the name on the helmet.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/hellem.org\/pic\/2008\/04\/helmet.jpg\" alt=\"Helmet\" title=\"Helmet\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday I was about to participated on the first outdoor training session with Rye (http:\/\/www.sportsklubbenrye.no). I lasted only five kilometers before one of the spokes on my front wheel snapped and I had to return home. So on Wednesday I went down to http:\/\/www.fast-bikes.no with my bike so that they could fix it. Got [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2156"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15434,"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2156\/revisions\/15434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}