{"id":4582,"date":"2025-07-31T11:54:58","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T15:54:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/?p=4582"},"modified":"2025-08-01T11:54:54","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T15:54:54","slug":"should-i-have-picked-the-other-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/index.php\/should-i-have-picked-the-other-way\/","title":{"rendered":"Should I have picked the other way?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OSMAnd provided two alternatives to get from Linkoping to Kisa. It flipped back and forth depending on whether I selected the &#8220;Consider terain&#8221; option. In the end I picked the option that appeared the most direct and easy to navigate. Not the route considering terrain.<\/p>\n<p>We climbed more today with a number of extended hills. I considered before I left home replacing my current 32-tooth rear cassette with a 36-tooth cassette (something I swapped out on Linda&#8217;s bicycle to make her more able to climb). Kinda missed that I hadn&#8217;t done that for myself today.<\/p>\n<p>We found a lovely AirBnB in Kisa. Linda spent part of the evening talking politics with the host.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"4580\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/index.php\/should-i-have-picked-the-other-way\/rps20250731_2003326378962673338168231-jpg\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/rickpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/rps20250731_2003326378962673338168231.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1280,622\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"rps20250731_2003326378962673338168231.jpg\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" 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It flipped back and forth depending on whether I selected the &#8220;Consider terain&#8221; option. In the end I picked the option that appeared the most direct and easy to navigate. Not the route considering terrain. We climbed more today with a number of extended hills. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/index.php\/should-i-have-picked-the-other-way\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Should I have picked the other way?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4582"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4629,"href":"https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4582\/revisions\/4629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}