{"id":1680,"date":"2010-06-24T21:32:41","date_gmt":"2010-06-24T20:32:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/?p=1680"},"modified":"2010-06-24T21:38:53","modified_gmt":"2010-06-24T20:38:53","slug":"iphone-orienteering-%e2%80%93-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/?p=1680","title":{"rendered":"iPhone Orienteering \u2013 London"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2010\/06\/photo3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-1682\" title=\"London Crowds\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2010\/06\/photo3-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>London on a Thursday evening 5.35pm. It\u2019s hot, sticky and the tube stations are closing due to over crowding after a points failure somewhere. I\u2019m In Victoria, and I\u2019ve got a train to catch at 6.33 in Euston&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>A couple of others and I walked reasonably fast past Buck House to Green park station, got to the platform to realise there was no way we were going to get on a train, it was heaving and the carriages passing were full to bursting. So backup to the surface (by this time the station was closed) and try to get a black cab. No luck so we started walking very, very quickly towards Euston. Then horrendous crowds as we neared the end of Oxford Street. After pushing our way through we realised it was iphone launch day. The Apple store was full with long queues up the street, security, police and marshals everywhere.<br \/>\nEventually with no Cabs in sight with their lights on and it getting very late I decided it was time for a run with a mile or so to go. Being led by a relative local up till then I had no idea where to go so it was out with the iphone and I ran with it on, navigating street by street on the google maps.<br \/>\nI staggered into Euston with 3 mins to spare and I eventually flopped onto the train a sweaty mess.<br \/>\nNow then should it go in the training diary? I don\u2019t think I\u2019ve a milage log for my black work shoes!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>London on a Thursday evening 5.35pm. It\u2019s hot, sticky and the tube stations are closing due to over crowding after a points failure somewhere. I\u2019m In Victoria, and I\u2019ve got a train to catch at 6.33 in Euston&#8230;&#8230; A couple of others and I walked reasonably fast past Buck House to Green park station, got &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/?p=1680\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;iPhone Orienteering \u2013 London&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1680"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1686,"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1680\/revisions\/1686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}