{"id":7628,"date":"2019-04-24T12:05:19","date_gmt":"2019-04-24T17:05:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sevencycles.com\/blog\/?p=7628"},"modified":"2025-11-05T18:04:46","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T23:04:46","slug":"the-connaught-600","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/the-connaught-600\/","title":{"rendered":"The Connaught 600"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First the photo, this one worth 2,000 words, we think.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-7629\" src=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/NoelMcNamara_WildAtlanticWay-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Connaught 600\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\"><\/p>\n<p>Even without any context, we found ourselves wondering, if you could ride a bike there (where?) why would you ever ride anywhere else? If you&#8217;re looking for the spot, it&#8217;sat the Ceide Fields a Neolithic field system in Mayo, Ireland.<\/p>\n<p>We met Noel, the rider, through our friends at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cyclefit.co.uk\/\">Cyclefit<\/a> in London. Noel is an accomplished audax rider from Ireland, and we painted his <a href=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/bikes\/axiom-sl.php\">Axiom SL<\/a> to match his favorite place to ride, as well as to honor Audax Ireland. The photo was taken during the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.audaxireland.org\/events-calendar\/gazetteer\/600km-events\/connaught-600\/\">Connaught 600<\/a>, a 600k event by the organiser of the Wild Atlantic Way Randonee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First the photo, this one worth 2,000 words, we think. Even without any context, we found ourselves wondering, if you could ride a bike there (where?) why would you ever ride anywhere else? If you&#8217;re looking for the spot, it&#8217;sat the Ceide Fields a Neolithic field system in Mayo, Ireland. We met Noel, the rider, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/the-connaught-600\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Connaught 600&#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":[1],"tags":[990,748,989,303,691,145,6,23],"class_list":{"0":"post-7628","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-articles","7":"tag-audax","8":"tag-axiom-sl","9":"tag-connaught-600","10":"tag-cyclefit","11":"tag-randonneuring","13":"tag-seven-customers","14":"tag-seven-racers"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7628","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=7628"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12261,"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7628\/revisions\/12261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}