{"id":81,"date":"2008-02-12T21:36:12","date_gmt":"2008-02-12T21:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/itsonlyahill.co.uk\/?p=81"},"modified":"2008-02-12T21:36:12","modified_gmt":"2008-02-12T21:36:12","slug":"megavalanche","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itsonlyahill.co.uk\/?p=81","title":{"rendered":"Megavalanche"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Megavalanche&#160;starts on snow near the top of a mountain and you race downhill&#8230;. <\/p>\n<p>How hard can that be? Pretty dam hard by all accounts, for a full report www.enduranceracing.co.uk, but Rich reckons that he encountered jutst about every type of terrain imaginable, starting on snow down to a rocky plateau, giving way to dirt trails and a smoking hot descent through a rock strewn valley, into some switchbacks and into alpine meadow.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.itsonlyahill.co.uk\/\/images\/stories\/m9.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" src=\"http:\/\/www.itsonlyahill.co.uk\/\/images\/stories\/m4.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.itsonlyahill.co.uk\/\/images\/stories\/m1.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"325\" height=\"500\" align=\"left\" src=\"http:\/\/www.itsonlyahill.co.uk\/\/images\/stories\/m7.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>starting in waves of 200 riders&#8230;.on ice and snow, a recipe for disaster <\/p>\n<p>descending Alp d Huez, from 3,300m to the valley floor.<\/p>\n<p>. <br \/>\n<input type=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/www.itsonlyahill.co.uk\/\/images\/stories\/m8.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><input width=\"325\" type=\"image\" height=\"500\" align=\"left\" src=\"http:\/\/www.itsonlyahill.co.uk\/\/images\/stories\/m6.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n&#160; Rich isn&#8217;t actually this fast, amazing what you can do with a bit of a wobbly camera<\/p>\n<p>. <br \/>\n&#160;&#160;<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" hspace=\"0\" height=\"600\" border=\"0\" src=\"\/images\/stories\/m2.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" hspace=\"0\" height=\"400\" border=\"0\" src=\"\/images\/stories\/m3.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><input width=\"600\" type=\"image\" height=\"431\" align=\"left\" src=\"..\/..\/..\/..\/\/images\/stories\/m5.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&#160; <\/p>\n<p>&#160;<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Megavalanche&#160;starts on snow near the top of a mountain and you race downhill&#8230;. How hard can that be? Pretty dam hard by all accounts, for a full report www.enduranceracing.co.uk, but Rich reckons that he encountered jutst about every type of terrain imaginable, starting on snow down to a rocky plateau, giving way to dirt &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/itsonlyahill.co.uk\/?p=81\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Megavalanche&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mountain-biking"],"featured_media_urls":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itsonlyahill.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itsonlyahill.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itsonlyahill.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itsonlyahill.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itsonlyahill.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=81"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/itsonlyahill.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itsonlyahill.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=81"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itsonlyahill.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=81"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itsonlyahill.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=81"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}