{"id":2144,"date":"2014-05-10T12:25:55","date_gmt":"2014-05-10T19:25:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/o2fitness.net\/o2\/?p=2144"},"modified":"2014-05-10T12:25:55","modified_gmt":"2014-05-10T19:25:55","slug":"day-1-joberg2c-heidelberg-to-frankfort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/silversagecenter.com\/staging\/day-1-joberg2c-heidelberg-to-frankfort\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 1 Joberg2c, Heidelberg to  Frankfort."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to Andy Buckley, \u00a0o2fitness athlete, on his South African success! Below the first of several blog posts from Andy&#8217;s diary account of the nine, life-changing days&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/silversagecenter.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2014\/05\/day-1-1024x1024.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2236\" src=\"http:\/\/silversagecenter.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2014\/05\/day-1-1024x1024-300x300.jpeg\" alt=\"day-1-1024x1024\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/silversagecenter.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/day-1-1024x1024-300x300.jpeg 300w, http:\/\/silversagecenter.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/day-1-1024x1024-80x80.jpeg 80w, http:\/\/silversagecenter.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/day-1-1024x1024-36x36.jpeg 36w, http:\/\/silversagecenter.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/day-1-1024x1024-180x180.jpeg 180w, http:\/\/silversagecenter.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/day-1-1024x1024-705x705.jpeg 705w, http:\/\/silversagecenter.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/day-1-1024x1024-120x120.jpeg 120w, http:\/\/silversagecenter.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/day-1-1024x1024-450x450.jpeg 450w, http:\/\/silversagecenter.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/day-1-1024x1024.jpeg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/joberg2c.co.za\/race-details\/the-results\/?group=About\" target=\"_blank\">joBerf2c<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Route is King \u2013 99.5% off-road, Subaru track (actually, Jeep track but we cannot say Jeep), tons of single-track, rural secondary roads and very little district road\u2026 There\u2019s only about 10km of tar along the entire 900km<b>.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Starting in the south of Johannesburg and finishing nine days later at Scottburgh on the KwaZulu-Natal coast. Part race part adventure, the Old Mutual joBerg2c takes competitors through the country, from the heat and dust of the big city to the cool crisp air of the sea via spectacular mountainous passes.<\/p>\n<p>116km today or 72 miles through classic cattle and maize farms. Some fun singletrack , lots of dirt road and segments of the bumpiest, muddy and sandy singletrack I can remember. The highlight of the day, a floating temporary bridge made of shipping pallets allowing is to cross the river Vaal.\u00a0 400m of precarious bike handling on the 1.1m width. (People did fall in)<\/p>\n<p>Today was a neutral no race day, but we came on 193 of 800, time of 5hrs 48m.\u00a0 We will race this pace to save energy for days later with more climbing<\/p>\n<p>Onward\u00a0tomorrow- snow in them mountains apparently<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to Andy Buckley, \u00a0o2fitness athlete, on his South African success! Below the first of several blog posts from Andy&#8217;s diary account of the nine, life-changing days&#8230; joBerf2c The Route is King \u2013 99.5% off-road, Subaru track (actually, Jeep track but we cannot say Jeep), tons of single-track, rural secondary roads and very little district [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2236,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[8],"class_list":["post-2144","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\/2144","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=2144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/silversagecenter.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2144\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/silversagecenter.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/silversagecenter.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/silversagecenter.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/silversagecenter.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}