{"id":1183,"date":"2012-08-07T12:05:34","date_gmt":"2012-08-07T11:05:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/janetmcmeekin.co.uk\/?p=1183"},"modified":"2012-08-07T12:05:34","modified_gmt":"2012-08-07T11:05:34","slug":"perform-like-olympic-cyclist-bedroom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/janetmcmeekin.co.uk\/index.php\/perform-like-olympic-cyclist-bedroom\/","title":{"rendered":"Perform like an Olympic cyclist &#8211; in the bedroom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/janetmcmeekin.co.uk\/index.php\/perform-like-olympic-cyclist-bedroom\/bike-in-action-standing-hat-high-resolution-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1187\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1187\" title=\"Bike in action - Standing Hat - high resolution\" src=\"http:\/\/janetmcmeekin.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Bike-in-action-Standing-Hat-high-resolution1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/janetmcmeekin.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Bike-in-action-Standing-Hat-high-resolution1.jpg 500w, https:\/\/janetmcmeekin.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Bike-in-action-Standing-Hat-high-resolution1-150x99.jpg 150w, https:\/\/janetmcmeekin.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Bike-in-action-Standing-Hat-high-resolution1-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a>Watching Team GB soar to golden success in the 2012 Olympics has, for me, (and, I sense, most of the nation!) been an incredibly inspiring yet humbling experience.<\/p>\n<p>I have to confess that I\u2019ve never really watched much sport on the TV before but now\u2026 well, I\u2019m just as hooked as everyone else I have talked to.<\/p>\n<p>Seeing the cyclists doing their thing in such style made me think about innovative businesswoman Christina Simons, who recently introduced \u2018pedal power\u2019 to her award-winning B&amp;B Cottage Lodge, located in Brockenhurst in the beautiful New Forest.<\/p>\n<p>The eco innovation takes the form of a specially-adapted former hire bicycle that\u2019s been placed in one of the bedrooms. When guests are feeling energetic, they can simply hop on and start pedalling to generate enough electricity to power the television and get fit at the same time. Don\u2019t worry, though, if you\u2019re not feeling up to the challenge, photovoltaic cells on the roof can step in to take the strain!<\/p>\n<p>I thoroughly enjoyed meeting and writing about Christina, whose passion for her business and its wealth of green features is contagious.<\/p>\n<p>The feature has been kindly flagged up in Anna-Lisa De\u2019Ath\u2019s Welcome column in the September\/October issue of an exciting new magazine entitled LandLove that is on the shelves now.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u00a0For more information about Cottage Lodge, or to make a booking, contact 01590 622296 or view <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cottagelodge.co.uk\">www.cottagelodge.co.uk<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/janetmcmeekin.co.uk\/index.php\/perform-like-olympic-cyclist-bedroom\/276834_361555763885558_242612271_n\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1189\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1189\" title=\"276834_361555763885558_242612271_n\" src=\"http:\/\/janetmcmeekin.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/276834_361555763885558_242612271_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"232\" srcset=\"https:\/\/janetmcmeekin.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/276834_361555763885558_242612271_n.jpg 180w, https:\/\/janetmcmeekin.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/276834_361555763885558_242612271_n-116x150.jpg 116w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 180px) 100vw, 180px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watching Team GB soar to golden success in the 2012 Olympics has, for me, (and, I sense, most of the nation!) been an incredibly inspiring yet humbling experience. I have&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1187,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/janetmcmeekin.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/janetmcmeekin.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/janetmcmeekin.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/janetmcmeekin.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/janetmcmeekin.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1183"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/janetmcmeekin.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1195,"href":"https:\/\/janetmcmeekin.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1183\/revisions\/1195"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/janetmcmeekin.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/janetmcmeekin.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/janetmcmeekin.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/janetmcmeekin.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}