{"id":1597,"date":"2013-06-09T18:13:03","date_gmt":"2013-06-09T17:13:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bl6.co.uk\/wordpress\/2013\/06\/09\/monster-climb-has-its-rewards\/"},"modified":"2013-06-09T18:13:03","modified_gmt":"2013-06-09T17:13:03","slug":"monster-climb-has-its-rewards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bl6.co.uk\/wordpress\/2013\/06\/09\/monster-climb-has-its-rewards\/","title":{"rendered":"Monster climb has its rewards"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 440px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bl6.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/wpid-DSC044071.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"The Burma Road, Aviemore\" class=\"aligncenter size-full\" alt=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bl6.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/wpid-DSC04407.jpg?w=640\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Burma Road near Aviemore<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I&#8217;ve just tackled a mountain biking route that&#8217;s been in my mind for years &#8211; and found it was well worth the wait. The weather was perfect and I am just about over a horrible dose of flu that&#8217;s knocked me out for more than a week, so I was desperate to get some exercise in, especially in these all-too-rare conditions.<\/p>\n<p>The climb up the Burma Road, which links Aviemore and Carrbridge via a pass that reaches around 700m above sea level, is just one part of this adrenaline-filled 30-mile route. It&#8217;s a long, slow climb that rewards with fantastic views of the Cairngorms &#8211; and a speedy descent to the River Dulnain where things get a bit trickier to ride&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be writing the full route up for Active Outdoors in the next few weeks so keep an eye on the local newspapers for it &#8211; you won&#8217;t want to miss this one!<\/p>\n<div id=\"geo-post-1597\" class=\"geo geo-post\" style=\"display: none\"><span class=\"latitude\">57.4551264<\/span><span class=\"longitude\">-4.2366784<\/span><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve just tackled a mountain biking route that&#8217;s been in my mind for years &#8211; and found it was well worth the wait. The weather was perfect and I am just about over a horrible dose of flu that&#8217;s knocked me out for more than a week, so I was desperate to get some exercise [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5M0xs-pL","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bl6.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1597"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bl6.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bl6.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bl6.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bl6.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bl6.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1597\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bl6.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bl6.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bl6.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}