{"id":1035,"date":"2004-07-22T17:48:23","date_gmt":"2004-07-22T21:48:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2004\/07\/tour_de_tennessee\/"},"modified":"2004-07-22T17:48:23","modified_gmt":"2004-07-22T21:48:23","slug":"tour_de_tennessee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/07\/tour_de_tennessee\/","title":{"rendered":"Tour de Tennessee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I read an account of the Tour de France&#8217;s legendary <a title=\"Tour's legendary ascent has new twist\" href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/sports\/cycling\/2004-07-19-tour-climb-focus_x.htm\">L&#8217;Alpe d&#8217;Huez ascent<\/a>. So in a moment of <strike>insanity<\/strike> inspiration, I decided to simulate the experience in what I&#8217;ll call the L&#8217;Tellico d&#8217;Cherohala.<br \/>\nI loaded up the bicycle, drove down to Tellico Plains, TN, and cycled up the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tailofthedragon.com\/cherohala.html\">Cherohala Skyway<\/a> to the North Carolina state line.<br \/>\nI&#8217;d say my experience yesterday is comparable to that of the Tour&#8217;s riders.  Except the only record I set is measured in pain.  And rather than a million fans, I only had the occasional pickup truck or motorcycle whizzing by with the driver wondering, &#8220;What the hell is that guy doing here?&#8221;  Oh, and I don&#8217;t suspect Tour de France riders do any walking, either.<br \/>\nAnyway, I&#8217;ve got pictures of the excursion <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/photogallery\/thumbnails.php?album=2\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/07\/tour_de_tennessee\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Tour de Tennessee\"><p>Yesterday I read an account of the Tour de France&#8217;s legendary L&#8217;Alpe d&#8217;Huez ascent. So in a moment of insanity inspiration, I decided to simulate the experience in what I&#8217;ll call the L&#8217;Tellico d&#8217;Cherohala. I loaded up the bicycle, drove down to Tellico Plains, TN, and cycled up the Cherohala Skyway to the North Carolina [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1035","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}