{"id":3391,"date":"2018-08-22T20:22:02","date_gmt":"2018-08-22T19:22:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scotlund.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3391"},"modified":"2019-01-07T20:23:16","modified_gmt":"2019-01-07T20:23:16","slug":"ride-22-08-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scotlund.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3391","title":{"rendered":"Ride 22\/08\/2018 Bealach na Ba"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/connect.garmin.com\/modern\/activity\/2953579422\/share\/0?lang=en&amp;fbclid=IwAR03q3duXdislJ1kaXlMXjGL-iG9wxQcwiR_VwpH1iGQRS2XK61542rDEQM\">Ride 22\/08\/2018\u00a0Bealach\u00a0na\u00a0Ba<\/a> <\/p> \n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So the greatest hill climb in Scotland goes like this, 4 hours to drive there, 2 hours to cycle it and 4 hours to drive back home again. All this would be worth it on a nice day, but today was not a nice day. It was pissing it down and windy as hell made worse by it being a head wind cycling up the hill. This made the ride hard core to ride up <span class=\"wp-font-emots-emo-displeased\"><\/span> It starts off easy enough but gets steeper the closer you get to the summit and it&#8217;s there you get sections at 20% and switchbacks right at the top :-0 I did check the weather yesterday and it said cloudy but dry, but what do humans know about predicting the weather <span class=\"wp-font-emots-emo-unhappy\"><\/span> I think on a nice day this would be a spectacular ride but today it was more of a chore and one I may have not bothered doing if it weren&#8217;t for the fact I&#8217;ve driven 250 miles to get there. Anyway I&#8217;m glad I did it I have bragging rights now <span class=\"wp-font-emots-emo-wink\"><\/span> and sods law dictated the weather cleared up just in time for my decent which allowed me to get some decent pictures <span class=\"wp-font-emots-emo-grin\"><\/span> <\/p> \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" <p> Ride 22\/08\/2018\u00a0Bealach\u00a0na\u00a0Ba So the greatest hill climb in Scotland goes like this, 4 hours to drive there, 2 hours to cycle it and 4 hours to drive back home again. All this would be worth it on a nice day, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scotlund.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3391\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <\/p> \n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-notes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scotlund.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scotlund.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scotlund.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scotlund.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scotlund.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3391"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.scotlund.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3393,"href":"https:\/\/www.scotlund.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3391\/revisions\/3393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scotlund.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scotlund.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scotlund.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}