{"id":1149,"date":"2014-02-01T13:31:30","date_gmt":"2014-02-01T13:31:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/notthesundayrun.com\/wp\/?p=1149"},"modified":"2014-02-01T13:36:34","modified_gmt":"2014-02-01T13:36:34","slug":"the-5-climbs-of-the-ulster-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/notthesundayrun.com\/wp\/?p=1149","title":{"rendered":"The 5 Climbs Of The Ulster Way"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding: 0; overflow: hidden; margin: 0; width: 500px;\"><a style=\"text-decoration: none;\" title=\"Stephens Loving The Route\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/45517967@N02\/12250419103\/in\/set-72157640374756516\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"padding: 0 10px 10px 0; width: 75px; height: 75px; float: left;\" alt=\"Stephens Loving The Route\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.staticflickr.com\/2872\/12250419103_686bccdbc1_s.jpg\" \/><\/a><a style=\"text-decoration: none;\" title=\"What goes\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/45517967@N02\/12250812226\/in\/set-72157640374756516\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"padding: 0 10px 10px 0; width: 75px; height: 75px; float: left;\" alt=\"What goes\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.staticflickr.com\/2821\/12250812226_5457fd3499_s.jpg\" \/><\/a><a style=\"text-decoration: none;\" title=\"Up\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/45517967@N02\/12250686094\/in\/set-72157640374756516\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"padding: 0 10px 10px 0; width: 75px; height: 75px; float: left;\" alt=\"Up\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3676\/12250686094_af68aa79e5_s.jpg\" \/><\/a><a style=\"text-decoration: none;\" title=\"Must Come Down\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/45517967@N02\/12250688004\/in\/set-72157640374756516\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"padding: 0 10px 10px 0; width: 75px; height: 75px; float: left;\" alt=\"Must Come Down\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3740\/12250688004_909e93cd60_s.jpg\" \/><\/a><a style=\"text-decoration: none;\" title=\"Havent been here for many years\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/45517967@N02\/12250816766\/in\/set-72157640374756516\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"padding: 0 10px 10px 0; width: 75px; height: 75px; float: left;\" alt=\"Havent been here for many years\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3797\/12250816766_05c980a3a9_s.jpg\" \/><\/a><a style=\"text-decoration: none;\" title=\"Frozen at The Sheep Pen\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/45517967@N02\/12250426773\/in\/set-72157640374756516\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"padding: 0 0 10px 0; width: 75px; height: 75px; float: left;\" alt=\"Frozen at The Sheep Pen\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5525\/12250426773_40f61e2461_s.jpg\" \/><\/a><br clear=\"all\" \/><a style=\"text-decoration: none;\" title=\"SNOW\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/45517967@N02\/12250692414\/in\/set-72157640374756516\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"padding: 0 10px 10px 0; width: 75px; height: 75px; float: left;\" alt=\"SNOW\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7409\/12250692414_3dbd6cb283_s.jpg\" \/><\/a><a style=\"text-decoration: none;\" title=\"5ways\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/45517967@N02\/12250346375\/in\/set-72157640374756516\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"padding: 0 10px 10px 0; width: 75px; height: 75px; float: left;\" alt=\"5ways\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.staticflickr.com\/2879\/12250346375_1e4da927bf_s.jpg\" \/><\/a><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"padding: 0 10px 10px 0; width: 75px; height: 75px; float: left;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/l.yimg.com\/g\/images\/gallery-empty-icon.gif\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"padding: 0 10px 10px 0; width: 75px; height: 75px; float: left;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/l.yimg.com\/g\/images\/gallery-empty-icon.gif\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"padding: 0 10px 10px 0; width: 75px; height: 75px; float: left;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/l.yimg.com\/g\/images\/gallery-empty-icon.gif\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"padding: 0 0 10px 0; width: 75px; height: 75px; float: left;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/l.yimg.com\/g\/images\/gallery-empty-icon.gif\" \/><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px;\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/45517967@N02\/sets\/72157640374756516\/\">Ulster Way x5<\/a>, a set on Flickr.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>With freezing rain and 50mph winds rom the south , anything on the open mountain was out . To the gathered ensemble of Stephen, Kenny,Cormac ,Liz and the COC , there was a rousing cheer as I described the route which would keep us out of the wind .<br \/>\nThe 5 climbs of the Ulster Way was as far as I remember first described by the great Kookie O&#8217;Hagan during training for the 2002 Transalp. It probably involved barbed wire in your shorts and 30mph sprints also , but those times are gone \ud83d\ude41 so a more moderate pace was in order and the barbed wire was replaced by inco pads .<br \/>\nLiz was first to fall victim to the cold after 3 climbs and a snow shower , very quickly followed by Cormac . Stephen was next to fail after 4 . Only Kenny and Myself produced the moral fortitude to keep going just so we could bring you this <a href=\"http:\/\/connect.garmin.com\/activity\/438678746\" target=\"_blank\">garmin route<\/a> to titillate you . Just everyday service from NTSR .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ulster Way x5, a set on Flickr. With freezing rain and 50mph winds rom the south , anything on the open mountain was out . To the gathered ensemble of Stephen, Kenny,Cormac ,Liz and the COC , there was a rousing cheer as I described the route which would keep us out of the wind [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-satrudays"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/notthesundayrun.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/notthesundayrun.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/notthesundayrun.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notthesundayrun.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notthesundayrun.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/notthesundayrun.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/notthesundayrun.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notthesundayrun.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notthesundayrun.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}