{"id":12005,"date":"2009-05-11T18:44:56","date_gmt":"2009-05-12T01:44:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=12005"},"modified":"2009-05-11T18:44:56","modified_gmt":"2009-05-12T01:44:56","slug":"skateboard-skateboarders-are-thrilled-at-states-first-sanctioned-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=12005","title":{"rendered":"Skateboard &#8211; Skateboarders are thrilled at state&#8217;s first sanctioned race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Skate-boarders are rocketing down the steep and twisting pavement that rolls from Buffalo Bill&#8217;s gravesite into Golden this weekend as part of Colorado&#8217;s first-ever sanctioned downhill race on a closed road.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8220;It&#8217;s such a relief to be here without any traffic,&#8221; said 48-year-old Rick Fitzpatrick, one of 48 athletes racing in the inaugural Buffalo Bill Downhill race on Lookout Mountain Road.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8220;We can really open it up.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Swaddled in tattered leather suits and donning Teflon-palmed gloves, the racers screamed down a mile of pavement. They slid their giant, custom-made boards sideways around five hairpin turns and crouched into deep tucks on the few straight sections. They drafted and passed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">With speeds reaching past&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/headlines\/ci_12335003\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Skate-boarders are rocketing down the steep and twisting pavement that rolls from Buffalo Bill&#8217;s gravesite into Golden this weekend as part of Colorado&#8217;s first-ever sanctioned downhill race on a closed road. &#8220;It&#8217;s such a relief to be here without any traffic,&#8221; said 48-year-old Rick Fitzpatrick, one of 48 athletes racing in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-board-sports","category-skateboard-mountain-board"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12005","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=12005"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12006,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12005\/revisions\/12006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}