{"id":2153,"date":"2014-05-10T12:32:34","date_gmt":"2014-05-10T19:32:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/o2fitness.net\/o2\/?p=2153"},"modified":"2014-05-10T12:32:34","modified_gmt":"2014-05-10T19:32:34","slug":"day-4-into-5-joberg2c-sterkfontein-dam-to-winterton-country-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/silversagecenter.com\/staging\/day-4-into-5-joberg2c-sterkfontein-dam-to-winterton-country-club\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 4 into 5  JoBerg2c-  Sterkfontein dam to Winterton Country Club"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><a href=\"http:\/\/silversagecenter.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2014\/05\/6d10ab68-b415-498d-90a4-e5ebfb9000be1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2239\" src=\"http:\/\/silversagecenter.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2014\/05\/6d10ab68-b415-498d-90a4-e5ebfb9000be1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"6d10ab68-b415-498d-90a4-e5ebfb9000be1\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/silversagecenter.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/6d10ab68-b415-498d-90a4-e5ebfb9000be1-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/silversagecenter.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/6d10ab68-b415-498d-90a4-e5ebfb9000be1-705x529.jpg 705w, http:\/\/silversagecenter.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/6d10ab68-b415-498d-90a4-e5ebfb9000be1-450x337.jpg 450w, http:\/\/silversagecenter.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/6d10ab68-b415-498d-90a4-e5ebfb9000be1.jpg 754w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/joberg2c.co.za\/race-details\/the-results\/?group=About\" target=\"_blank\">JoBerg2c<\/a> \u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Leaving the Free State to enter KwaZulu Natal. Back on the bike for a frosty 1degree start.\u00a0 We rode into the valley mist on district roads to find a climb to the escarpment. Terrain that in some ways resembles Zion with singletrack over slick rock. Stunning views into Natal led to an epic descent on real deal trail. (America beats SA on descending skills)<\/p>\n<p>The last climb of the day was about 600 vert of steep technical track with sun beating on your back. Turns out the SA&#8217;s can&#8217;t climb it either if it&#8217;s loose, but to give credit, they are tough and with determination not often seen.<\/p>\n<p>On a day of 121km we spent very little on roads which was great, but pacing on s-track is always slower so 7hrs 17 in the saddle, we came in 195 out of just under 800, 178 overall to date.\u00a0 But that&#8217;s about to change&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>After a shower, lunch and comp beers life was good.\u00a0 By\u00a07pm\u00a0I was back with the doc with my GI issue, and a new found love for porta johns.\u00a0 My favorite quote from doc, &#8220;what part of don&#8217;t eat protein and fat didn&#8217;t you understand&#8221;.\u00a0 Spending every other day in the invalid van wasn&#8217;t my plan, but now I just need to get better.\u00a0 Day 5 off.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JoBerg2c \u00a0 Leaving the Free State to enter KwaZulu Natal. Back on the bike for a frosty 1degree start.\u00a0 We rode into the valley mist on district roads to find a climb to the escarpment. Terrain that in some ways resembles Zion with singletrack over slick rock. Stunning views into Natal led to an epic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2239,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[8],"class_list":["post-2153","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\/2153","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=2153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/silversagecenter.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2153\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/silversagecenter.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/silversagecenter.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/silversagecenter.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/silversagecenter.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}