{"id":2139,"date":"2014-05-10T12:40:39","date_gmt":"2014-05-10T19:40:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/o2fitness.net\/o2\/?p=2139"},"modified":"2014-05-10T12:40:39","modified_gmt":"2014-05-10T19:40:39","slug":"day-9-joberg2c-jolivet-to-scottburgh-84km-1550m-down-850m-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/silversagecenter.com\/staging\/day-9-joberg2c-jolivet-to-scottburgh-84km-1550m-down-850m-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 9-JoBerg2c, Jolivet to Scottburgh.  84km , 1550m down 850m up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/joberg2c.co.za\/race-details\/the-results\/?group=About\" target=\"_blank\">JoBerg2c<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/silversagecenter.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2014\/05\/2af6b297-f236-4eaf-8c76-fc9959a9af5d2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2242\" src=\"http:\/\/silversagecenter.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2014\/05\/2af6b297-f236-4eaf-8c76-fc9959a9af5d2-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"2af6b297-f236-4eaf-8c76-fc9959a9af5d2\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"http:\/\/silversagecenter.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/2af6b297-f236-4eaf-8c76-fc9959a9af5d2-300x199.jpg 300w, http:\/\/silversagecenter.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/2af6b297-f236-4eaf-8c76-fc9959a9af5d2-705x468.jpg 705w, http:\/\/silversagecenter.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/2af6b297-f236-4eaf-8c76-fc9959a9af5d2-450x299.jpg 450w, http:\/\/silversagecenter.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/2af6b297-f236-4eaf-8c76-fc9959a9af5d2.jpg 754w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Andy&#8217;s Adventure Concludes&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>We Rode the Beloved Country!<\/p>\n<p>7am\u00a0start and we were all excited to get this thing going.\u00a0 We again were in group G, so we got American and jumped into group E.\u00a0 2 minute gaps for each group. Today I had the best legs of the week.\u00a0 I knew in five minutes I had gusto. Caught the back of D in no time, hooked into C (where we should be)<\/p>\n<p>Today we flew.\u00a0 Josh warmed up and we hammered a constant pace on a mixture of sandy double and singletrack.\u00a0 We spent much of our day in the sugar cane fields, with the leaves slapping us as we pedaled mostly downhill.<\/p>\n<p>Again the crest top\u00a0 ores were amazing, but mostly today was about getting to the Indian Ocean at Scottburgh.<\/p>\n<p>As usual the 20km last push in the wind seemed to take forever.\u00a0 The final segment always comes, this time a 600m floating bridge across the lagoon, 1m wide, and the whole thing moved with the wind.<\/p>\n<p>We were down in about 4hrs 20m<\/p>\n<p>So what to make of this event?\u00a0 Every part of the experience is hard- from the riding to the cold to the hauling of bags each day, basics like showers and toilets become an art of timing.\u00a0 Would I do it again? Ask me\u00a0tomorrow:)<\/p>\n<p>A note on South Africa and the people. What a warm, enthusiastic show for life here, even though there is an underlying sense that not all is well politically or socially.\u00a0 So much potential, but time will tell how the riches of this country (place and people) are realized.\u00a0 In every town we were greeted by friendly Afrikaans, Anglos, and tribal people. All showed such warmth and interest in us and our journey. I am pleased to have met all if them.\u00a0 Even the ones that can&#8217;t go downhill, ride tech uphill, cross rivers it ride mud:);<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JoBerg2c Andy&#8217;s Adventure Concludes&#8230; We Rode the Beloved Country! 7am\u00a0start and we were all excited to get this thing going.\u00a0 We again were in group G, so we got American and jumped into group E.\u00a0 2 minute gaps for each group. Today I had the best legs of the week.\u00a0 I knew in five minutes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2242,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[8],"class_list":["post-2139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletes-blog","tag-andy-buckley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/silversagecenter.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/silversagecenter.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/silversagecenter.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/silversagecenter.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/silversagecenter.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/silversagecenter.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2139\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/silversagecenter.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/silversagecenter.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/silversagecenter.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/silversagecenter.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}