{"id":2487,"date":"2013-07-29T11:13:19","date_gmt":"2013-07-29T16:13:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sevencycles.com\/blog\/?p=2487"},"modified":"2020-09-14T14:04:03","modified_gmt":"2020-09-14T19:04:03","slug":"mike-and-mary-at-mtb-nationals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/mike-and-mary-at-mtb-nationals\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike and Mary at MTB Nationals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/MnM+at+nats+2013.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2488 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/MnM+at+nats+2013.jpg\" alt=\"Mike and Mary at the USA National Championships 2013\" width=\"640\" height=\"526\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/MnM+at+nats+2013.jpg 640w, https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/MnM+at+nats+2013-400x329.jpg 400w, https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/MnM+at+nats+2013-300x246.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/maryandmikeride.blogspot.com\/2013\/07\/national-championships.html\">Great pictures and stories<\/a> from Mike and Mary&#8217;s recent exploits at MTB Nationals, where they made us all really proud, Mary with a podium finish and Mike with a top 10, as well as the full catch up on their RV-based, race-chasing exploits.<\/p>\n<p>Just a sample:<\/p>\n<p><em>I got a great start from my front row call up and settled into a 3rd place position that I was able to maintain for the entirety of the race. \u00a0 I really had to measure my output in the heat but actually felt kind of great a few times while taking a few calculated but extreme lines and really enjoying the challenge of\u00a0 this &#8220;real&#8221; mountain bike course &#8211; something that is less and less typical in this newer era of XC racing.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Mary McConneloug<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Great pictures and stories from Mike and Mary&#8217;s recent exploits at MTB Nationals, where they made us all really proud, Mary with a podium finish and Mike with a top 10, as well as the full catch up on their RV-based, race-chasing exploits. Just a sample: I got a great start from my front row &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/mike-and-mary-at-mtb-nationals\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mike and Mary at MTB Nationals&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[135,11,10,754,23,34,9],"class_list":["post-2487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-imx-sl","tag-mike-mary","tag-mike-and-mary","tag-mountain-bikes","tag-seven-racers","tag-sola-sl","tag-team-kendasevenno-tubes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2487"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11661,"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2487\/revisions\/11661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}