{"id":287,"date":"2006-01-07T13:42:37","date_gmt":"2006-01-07T13:42:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chaplog.co.uk\/blog\/?p=287"},"modified":"2006-01-08T17:00:57","modified_gmt":"2006-01-08T17:00:57","slug":"getting-out-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.chaplog.co.uk\/blog\/?p=287","title":{"rendered":"Getting Out More"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an effort to get out more I set off for Wales at 7:00 am on Tuesday.   The plan was to ride some of the prepared single track mountain bike trails that have been created in North Wales.  <\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/www.chaplog.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/Karrimorinthewoodssun.jpg' alt='' \/><\/p>\n<p><i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mbwales.com\/pdfs\/cyb_route_2.PDF\">The Karrimor trail<\/a> Coed y Brenin <\/i><br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The first one I tried was the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mbwales.com\/gwydyr_forest\/maps.htm#\">Marin trail<\/a> at Llanrwst.  I was impressed as there was exiting riding, no map reading and good views.  It was a bit worrying being on my own hurtling down single track in the middle of a forest in freezing conditions.  An accident would be a problem, I was careful(ish).  I stayed in the Climber&#8217;s club hut in Llanberis as there was no water in the North London hut in Capel Currig my first choice.<\/p>\n<p>The weather was cold 1 0r 2 degress at most.<\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/www.chaplog.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/mistyhillsbackgroundweb.jpg' alt='' \/><\/p>\n<p><i>High up on the Karrimor trail  in Lord of the Rings country?  No  that is New Zealand!<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Tuesday         <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mbwales.com\/gwydyr_forest\/maps.htm#\">Marin trail Llanrwst<\/a>  25K<br \/>\nWednesday    <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mtbbritain.co.uk\/karrimor_route.html\">Karrimor trail Coed y Brenin<\/a> 35K<br \/>\nThursday      <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mbwales.com\/pdfs\/cyb_route_3.PDF\"> Mbr trail Coed y Brenin<\/a> 22K<br \/>\nFriday             Marin trail Llanrwst (I did it again as it was on the way home and fun) 25K<\/p>\n<p>Over one hundred Kilometres off road, the bike needs a service and I am a little stiff in the arms! I am not used to downhill.<\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/www.chaplog.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/sunriseoverpennypassweb.jpg' alt='' \/><\/p>\n<p><i>Interesting cloud in the early morning &#8211; photograph taken from the Pen-y- pass<\/i> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an effort to get out more I set off for Wales at 7:00 am on Tuesday. The plan was to ride some of the prepared single track mountain bike trails that have been created in North Wales. The Karrimor trail Coed y Brenin<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cycling","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chaplog.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chaplog.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chaplog.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chaplog.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/88"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chaplog.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.chaplog.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chaplog.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chaplog.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chaplog.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}