{"id":1899,"date":"2014-06-22T21:58:46","date_gmt":"2014-06-22T20:58:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bl6.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=1899"},"modified":"2018-06-11T12:30:17","modified_gmt":"2018-06-11T11:30:17","slug":"highland-cross-2014-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bl6.co.uk\/wordpress\/2014\/06\/22\/highland-cross-2014-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Highland Cross 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 450px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bl6.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/wpid-dsc07729.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"DSC07729.JPG\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" alt=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bl6.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/wpid-dsc07729.jpg?w=640\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Snaking up the hill in the early stages of the 20-mile run<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The legs are slowly recovering after completing my second Highland Cross. I knocked around seven or eight minutes off my time from last year, coming into Beauly 5 hours, 22 minutes and 12 seconds after setting off from Kintail. The coast-to-coast duathlon involves a 20-mile run including a huge climb (part of which can be seen in the photo above) then a 30-mile cycle from Glen Affric to the finish in Beauly.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s my Garmin breakdown of the event &#8211; run\/transition\/cycle:<\/p>\n<p><code><br \/>\n<iframe width='465' height='548' frameborder='0' src='http:\/\/connect.garmin.com:80\/activity\/embed\/526714840'><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe width='465' height='548' frameborder='0' src='http:\/\/connect.garmin.com:80\/activity\/embed\/526714844'><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe width='465' height='548' frameborder='0' src='http:\/\/connect.garmin.com:80\/activity\/embed\/526714846'><\/iframe><br \/>\n<\/code><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The legs are slowly recovering after completing my second Highland Cross. I knocked around seven or eight minutes off my time from last year, coming into Beauly 5 hours, 22 minutes and 12 seconds after setting off from Kintail. The coast-to-coast duathlon involves a 20-mile run including a huge climb (part of which can be [&hellip;]<\/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":[157,4],"tags":[92],"class_list":["post-1899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-highlandcross","category-blog","tag-highland-cross"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5M0xs-uD","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3748,"url":"https:\/\/bl6.co.uk\/wordpress\/2018\/07\/01\/making-it-count-at-the-cross\/","url_meta":{"origin":1899,"position":0},"title":"Making it count at the Cross","author":"John Davidson","date":"July 1, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"There\u2019s a chance that the total raised by the Highland Cross will surpass \u00a35 million when this year\u2019s donations are tallied up. 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