{"id":140,"date":"2008-05-06T07:59:03","date_gmt":"2008-05-06T13:59:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.brickhouseracing.com\/?p=140"},"modified":"2008-05-06T08:00:57","modified_gmt":"2008-05-06T14:00:57","slug":"personal-mt-cheaha-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/?p=140","title":{"rendered":"Personal Mt. Cheaha Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since my Roswell race wasn&#8217;t until Sunday afternoon, I decided I&#8217;d stick around Sunday night and venture out to Mt. Cheaha in the morning for a little climbing. Sunday morning was the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.neabc.org\/cheaha\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Mount Cheaha Challenge Century<\/a>, and I figured that I&#8217;d ride part of the course since the roads would still be marked.<\/p>\n<p>I ended up parking on top of Mt Cheaha (highest point in Alabama!) and riding down the mountain and back. Just over 31 miles total. It was a nice ride- very rolling down and back with some very steep (thankfully not incredibly long) pitches. The longest climb was the last 3 miles on the way back. It wasn&#8217;t as steep as some of the other grades, though, so it wasn&#8217;t too hard to navigate.<\/p>\n<p>You can go to Mapmyride for the route and elevation profile by clicking <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mapmyride.com\/ride\/united-states\/al\/mt-cheaha-state-park\/710479694845\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a camera-phone photo from one of the scenic overlooks:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.brickhouseracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/cheaha.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-141\" title=\"cheaha\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.brickhouseracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/cheaha.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"625\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/cheaha.jpg 1131w, http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/cheaha-239x300.jpg 239w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since my Roswell race wasn&#8217;t until Sunday afternoon, I decided I&#8217;d stick around Sunday night and venture out to Mt. Cheaha in the morning for a little climbing. Sunday morning was the Mount Cheaha Challenge Century, and I figured that I&#8217;d ride part of the course since the roads would still be marked. I ended&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa8Uq-2g","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}