{"id":65,"date":"2010-08-30T23:50:04","date_gmt":"2010-08-31T04:50:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidgreedy.com\/blog\/?p=65"},"modified":"2010-08-30T23:50:04","modified_gmt":"2010-08-31T04:50:04","slug":"the-hoodoo-500-ultimate-endurance-cycling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.davidgreedy.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/30\/the-hoodoo-500-ultimate-endurance-cycling\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hoodoo 500: Ultimate endurance cycling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The hot desert and high mountains of southwestern Utah provide the landscape for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.planetultra.com\/Hoodoo500\/\" target=\"_blank\">Hoodoo 500<\/a>; a truly remarkable annual event in which cyclists have 48 hours to ride the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.planetultra.com\/Hoodoo500\/Route%20Maps%20and%20Profiles.htm\" target=\"_blank\">517 mile course<\/a>. The winner of the solo division crossed the line after 34 hours of hard riding, made harder by 20-30 mph headwinds. Of the 13 solo riders that started the race, only 5 crossed the line including first time competitor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/DreMD?ref=ts\" target=\"_blank\">Andr\u00c3\u00a9 Michaud<\/a> in 4th with a time of 42h 18m. Congratulations to all\u00c2\u00a0 who participated and especially to Andr\u00c3\u00a9, an accomplished ultra-runner with many 100 mile runs to his credit, on his debut ride. It was an honor to crew for him on this remarkable, super human endeavor.<\/p>\n\n<!-- SlidePress Gallery 1.4.7 [hoodoo-500] -->\n\n\n<div class=\"slidepress-gallery\">\n\t<div id=\"ssp_g_hoodoo_500\">\n\t\t<p>This SlideShowPro photo gallery requires the Flash Player plugin and a web browser with JavaScript enabled.<\/p>\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n\nvar flashvars = { \n\tparamXMLPath: \"http:\/\/www.davidgreedy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/slidepress\/tools\/param.php?gid=hoodoo-500\",\n\tinitialURL: escape(document.location),\n\tuseExternalInterface: true\n};\n\nvar attributes = {};\n\n\n\t  \t\nvar params = {\n\tquality: \"best\",\n\tbgcolor: \"#121212\",\n\twmode: \"transparent\",\n\tallowfullscreen: \"true\",\n\tallowScriptAccess: \"always\"\n};\n\n\nparams.base = \".\"; \nswfobject.embedSWF(\"http:\/\/www.davidgreedy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/slidepress\/flash\/slideshowpro.swf\", \"ssp_g_hoodoo_500\", \"520\", \"445\", \"9.0.0\", false, flashvars, params, attributes);\n\n\n<\/script>\n\n<!-- SlidePress Gallery ends -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The hot desert and high mountains of southwestern Utah provide the landscape for the Hoodoo 500; a truly remarkable annual event in which cyclists have 48 hours to ride the 517 mile course. The winner of the solo division crossed &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidgreedy.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/30\/the-hoodoo-500-ultimate-endurance-cycling\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,10,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-slideshow","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davidgreedy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davidgreedy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davidgreedy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davidgreedy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davidgreedy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.davidgreedy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69,"href":"http:\/\/www.davidgreedy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions\/69"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davidgreedy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davidgreedy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davidgreedy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}