{"id":533,"date":"2011-02-14T09:21:16","date_gmt":"2011-02-14T09:21:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.irishxcmtb.com\/?p=2047"},"modified":"2011-02-14T09:25:07","modified_gmt":"2011-02-14T09:25:07","slug":"2011-xc-and-xc-marathon-champs-confirmed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.offroadcyclingireland.ie\/wordpress\/2011\/02\/14\/2011-xc-and-xc-marathon-champs-confirmed\/","title":{"rendered":"2011 XC and XC Marathon Champs Confirmed."},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The 2011 <span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>XC and XC Marathon XC Champs <\/strong><\/span>have now been confirmed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The 2011 XC Champs will be hosted by <a title=\"Team WORC\" href=\"http:\/\/team-worc.com\/news.php\">Team WORC<\/a> under the direction of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Robin_Seymour\">Robin Seymour<\/a> in a brand new location in Annamoe, Co. Wicklow<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This event promises what is likely to be the most thrilling and impressive course ever created for Irish XC racing.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The course has been designed and built by the trail-maestro Seymour himself \u2013 anyone that has raced in Djouce or Kilruddery will know that Robin\u2019s courses are world standard affairs with a perfect balance of flow, speed and technicality. Needless to say that everyone should be getting very excited about this race.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The 2011 Marathon XC Champs will be hosted by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trailriders.ie\/affiliates_8.html\">Team Ballyhoura<\/a>, in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.coillteoutdoors.ie\/index.php?id=53&amp;rec_site=114&amp;no_cache=1\">Ballyhoura trail centre<\/a> on the Cork\/Limerick border.\u00a0MBCC hosted the 2010 Marathon XC Champs in this excellent venue which was very well received by all riders. The course will likely be a combination of trail centre and natural sections with open mountain stretches included \u2013 a true test of biking skills, endurance and dogged determination!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Further info and detail on both events will follow in due course but a big thanks goes out to these clubs and their members &amp; helpers for committing their time and effort to hosting these two prestigious Irish XC MTB events.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2011 XC and XC Marathon XC Champs have now been confirmed. The 2011 XC Champs will be hosted by Team WORC under the direction of Robin Seymour in a brand new location in&#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":[16,27,53,100,101],"class_list":["post-533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-xc","tag-marathon","tag-national-championships","tag-xc-racing","tag-xcm","tag-xco"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.offroadcyclingireland.ie\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533","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=533"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.offroadcyclingireland.ie\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":534,"href":"http:\/\/www.offroadcyclingireland.ie\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533\/revisions\/534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.offroadcyclingireland.ie\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.offroadcyclingireland.ie\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.offroadcyclingireland.ie\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}