{"id":1192,"date":"2009-02-11T01:53:53","date_gmt":"2009-02-10T21:53:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=1192"},"modified":"2009-03-17T20:53:43","modified_gmt":"2009-03-18T03:53:43","slug":"mountain-bike-racing-league-no-longer-a-dirty-little-secret","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=1192","title":{"rendered":"Cycling &#8211; Mountain bike racing league no longer a dirty little secret"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1193\" title=\"mt-bike-league\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2009\/02\/mt-bike-league-100x100.jpg\" alt=\"mt-bike-league\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If there are two things that seem to have an affinity for each other they are kids and dirt.<\/p>\n<p>Throw in a mountain bike, and you&#8217;re about halfway to childhood nirvana.<\/p>\n<p>Or at least that&#8217;s the way it appeared to be when a bunch of high-school kids were tearing up the fire roads and single tracks in and around the Tamarancho Boy Scout Camp in Fairfax this past weekend.<\/p>\n<p>And the sloppy conditions brought on by recent rains only seemed to enhance the experience, as the grins &#8211; as well as mud-splattered clothing and begrimed bikes &#8211; were evident when the mixed-gender group of teenagers pulled into the camp headquarters for a mid-day lunch break.<\/p>\n<p>These kids, maybe a couple dozen all told, were part of a preseason training camp put on by the NorCal High School Mountain Bike Racing League, which is entering its ninth season this spring&#8230;.\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/c\/a\/2009\/02\/11\/SP9O15S2I6.DTL\" target=\"_blank\">More info<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<center><br \/>\n[ad#cor1]<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If there are two things that seem to have an affinity for each other they are kids and dirt. Throw in a mountain bike, and you&#8217;re about halfway to childhood nirvana. Or at least that&#8217;s the way it appeared to be when a bunch of high-school kids were tearing up the fire roads and single [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cycling","category-mt-bike"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1192"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4671,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1192\/revisions\/4671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}