{"id":1162,"date":"2012-01-03T22:44:20","date_gmt":"2012-01-03T22:44:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bl6.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=1162"},"modified":"2012-01-03T22:44:20","modified_gmt":"2012-01-03T22:44:20","slug":"a-new-year-time-for-new-adventures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bl6.co.uk\/wordpress\/2012\/01\/03\/a-new-year-time-for-new-adventures\/","title":{"rendered":"A new year – time for new adventures!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This picture seems to have gone down well – see this week’s Active Outdoors<\/a> to find out where it is and follow the great walk to get there!
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The team are already planning plenty of adventures for 2012, including a paddle in the Great Glen, a Hebridean cycle tour (with youngster in tow) and Peter will be heading up his 283rd and final Munro! I’m looking forward to the party after that one.<\/p>\n

For now, my plans are fixed on training for the Inverness Half Marathon in March.<\/p>\n

Whatever your plans, keep following my progress here and don’t miss our regular features in Active Outdoors<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This picture seems to have gone down well – see this week’s Active Outdoors to find out where it is and follow the great walk to get there!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[80,9,7,11,15,35,50,5,60,18],"class_list":["post-1162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-active-outdoors","tag-bike","tag-cycle","tag-highlands","tag-mountains","tag-munro","tag-run","tag-running","tag-scotland","tag-walk"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5M0xs-iK","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3479,"url":"https:\/\/bl6.co.uk\/wordpress\/2017\/12\/31\/ready-for-a-new-year-of-adventures\/","url_meta":{"origin":1162,"position":0},"title":"Ready for a new year of adventures","author":"John Davidson","date":"December 31, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Running up and down hills, cycling along country lanes, mountain biking on exhilarating off-road trails, taking a walk in the magnificent Highland scenery or climbing a mountain \u2013 we\u2019ve covered it all in Active Outdoors this year. 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