{"id":3540,"date":"2012-03-26T21:44:17","date_gmt":"2012-03-26T20:44:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/?p=3540"},"modified":"2012-03-26T21:46:53","modified_gmt":"2012-03-26T20:46:53","slug":"erik-rides-cape-epic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/?p=3540","title":{"rendered":"Erik rides Cape Epic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2012\/03\/slide4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3541\" title=\"slide4\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2012\/03\/slide4-300x140.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"140\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2012\/03\/slide4-300x140.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2012\/03\/slide4-150x70.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2012\/03\/slide4-400x187.jpg 400w, http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2012\/03\/slide4.jpg 733w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>MTBO superstar Erik Skovgaard Knudsen\u00a0is currently down in South Africa competing for\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.racing29ers.com\/\">http:\/\/www.racing29ers.com\/<\/a>\u00a0and doing well against some awesome competition including the God of mountain bike racing\u00a0CHRISTOPH SAUSER. It would be amazing just to be in the same race as the flying Swiss but Erik and his partner Thomas Bundgaard\u00a0are keeping up and are currently lying in 9th place after the first day proper.<\/p>\n<p>The 8 day 800 kilometre race with over 14,000 metres of climb winds its way around some fantastic scenery around the Cape.<\/p>\n<p>You can follow Erik&#8217;s progress (in Danish so go for Google translate) at the racing 29s website or on facebook here\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Racing29ers\/218610998214939\">http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Racing29ers\/218610998214939<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Full Cape Epic details and daily results are here\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cape-epic.com\/live\/\">http:\/\/www.cape-epic.com\/live\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I wonder if the winter beard has come off in the heat!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MTBO superstar Erik Skovgaard Knudsen\u00a0is currently down in South Africa competing for\u00a0http:\/\/www.racing29ers.com\/\u00a0and doing well against some awesome competition including the God of mountain bike racing\u00a0CHRISTOPH SAUSER. It would be amazing just to be in the same race as the flying Swiss but Erik and his partner Thomas Bundgaard\u00a0are keeping up and are currently lying in &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/?p=3540\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Erik rides Cape Epic&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3541,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,8,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-competitions","category-cycling","category-mountain-biking-cycling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3540"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3544,"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3540\/revisions\/3544"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}