{"id":3785,"date":"2012-12-22T21:53:42","date_gmt":"2012-12-22T21:53:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.offroadcyclingireland.ie\/wordpress\/?p=3785"},"modified":"2012-12-22T21:53:42","modified_gmt":"2012-12-22T21:53:42","slug":"xc-nps-2013-calendar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.offroadcyclingireland.ie\/wordpress\/2012\/12\/22\/xc-nps-2013-calendar\/","title":{"rendered":"XC NPS 2013 Calendar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.offroadcyclingireland.ie\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/NPS-Logo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-3781\" title=\"XC NPS Logo\" src=\"http:\/\/www.offroadcyclingireland.ie\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/NPS-Logo-300x153.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"153\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.offroadcyclingireland.ie\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/NPS-Logo-300x153.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.offroadcyclingireland.ie\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/NPS-Logo-1024x523.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.offroadcyclingireland.ie\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/NPS-Logo.jpg 1068w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Here are the long awaited XC NPS race dates for 2013:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>14th April &#8211; Mayo<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>28th April &#8211; Kerry<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>12th May &#8211; Dublin<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>26th May &#8211; Antrim<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>9th June &#8211; Dublin<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>23rd June &#8211; Wicklow<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>JUNIOR<\/strong> and <strong>SENIOR<\/strong> riders must compete in <strong>at least 5 out of 6 XC NPS rounds<\/strong> to amass points towards the final League standings, for <strong>YOUTH<\/strong> categories you must compete in <strong>at least 4 out of 6 XC NPS rounds<\/strong>.<br \/>\nIf you DNF (or DNS on your first lap) this is still counted as competing in a round.<\/p>\n<p>The race categories for 2013 remain unchanged (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.offroadcyclingireland.ie\/wordpress\/offroad-racing\/xc-racing\/race-categories-explained\/\" target=\"_blank\">Race Categories Explained<\/a>). However, compulsory upgrades will be introduced next year for the top performers of 2012.<br \/>\nThe list of XC NPS\u00a0categories for riders in 2013 will be announced before the<strong> 1st of January 2013<\/strong> here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.offroadcyclingireland.ie\/wordpress\/offroad-racing\/xc-racing\/2011-xc-rider-categories\/\" target=\"_blank\">XC NPS Rider Categories<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A more comprehensive (constantly being updated) list of all XC events in Ireland in 2013 can be found here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.offroadcyclingireland.ie\/wordpress\/offroad-calendar\/\" target=\"_blank\">Offroad Calendar<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Max Power<\/em><br \/>\n<em>XC Co-ordinator<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Here are the long awaited XC NPS race dates for 2013: 14th April &#8211; Mayo 28th April &#8211; Kerry 12th May &#8211; Dublin 26th May &#8211; Antrim 9th June &#8211; Dublin 23rd June&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-xc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.offroadcyclingireland.ie\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.offroadcyclingireland.ie\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.offroadcyclingireland.ie\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.offroadcyclingireland.ie\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.offroadcyclingireland.ie\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3785"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/www.offroadcyclingireland.ie\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3797,"href":"http:\/\/www.offroadcyclingireland.ie\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3785\/revisions\/3797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.offroadcyclingireland.ie\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.offroadcyclingireland.ie\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.offroadcyclingireland.ie\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}