{"id":1927,"date":"2006-03-22T13:28:01","date_gmt":"2006-03-22T18:28:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2006\/03\/chattanooga_cycling\/"},"modified":"2006-03-22T13:28:01","modified_gmt":"2006-03-22T18:28:01","slug":"chattanooga_cycling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2006\/03\/chattanooga_cycling\/","title":{"rendered":"Chattanooga Cycling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tourdegeorgia.com\/\">Tour de Georgia 2006<\/a> is coming to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tourdegeorgia.com\/hostcities.php\">Chattanooga<\/a> and Herbert at Litespeed has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.litespeed.com\/blog\/weblog.aspx\">related blog<\/a>.<br \/>\nAlthough I appreciate the demands of a cycling race, I&#8217;m thinking it&#8217;s not that great of a spectator event.  By and large, you sit there and for a few seconds see the riders zoom by, and that&#8217;s pretty much it.  Seems even worse than a golf event; at least there you can move around and see different parts of the course.<br \/>\nI see Litespeed, in Ooltewah, has tours of their factory available.  That would be pretty cool to see.  I went to college just a few miles from there, but at the time didn&#8217;t even notice that the place existed.  Alas.<br \/>\nIn other Chattanooga-area bicycling news, I&#8217;m thinking about doing my first <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chattbike.com\/events\/3_state\/3stchlng.htm\">3 State 3 Mountain Challenge<\/a> this May.  I gather it&#8217;s a good event, and they&#8217;ve already got over 1,400 people registered for this year&#8217;s ride.  The biggest hurdle in participating is that it&#8217;s early in the season to be in good enough shape to do a century.  Although I&#8217;ve basically been riding throughout the winter, the longest ride I&#8217;ve done in 2006 is 42 miles.  [Long rides and cold temperatures don&#8217;t mix well for me.]  Better get cracking and hope for some nice warm weekends in April.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2006\/03\/chattanooga_cycling\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Chattanooga Cycling\"><p>The Tour de Georgia 2006 is coming to Chattanooga and Herbert at Litespeed has a related blog. Although I appreciate the demands of a cycling race, I&#8217;m thinking it&#8217;s not that great of a spectator event. By and large, you sit there and for a few seconds see the riders zoom by, and that&#8217;s pretty [&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-1927","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\/1927","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=1927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1927\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}