{"id":726,"date":"2016-07-20T06:00:35","date_gmt":"2016-07-20T13:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.seattlerando.org\/?p=726"},"modified":"2016-07-25T15:15:24","modified_gmt":"2016-07-25T22:15:24","slug":"doug-migdens-transcontinental-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.seattlerando.org\/?p=726","title":{"rendered":"Doug Migden&#8217;s Transcontinental Race"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_729\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-729\" class=\"size-full wp-image-729\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.seattlerando.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/TCR-17-of-20.jpg\" alt=\"Doug Migden on his bike with flags of Turkey and Greece behind him, showing that he has just crossed the border into Turkey.\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.seattlerando.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/TCR-17-of-20.jpg 600w, https:\/\/blog.seattlerando.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/TCR-17-of-20-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blog.seattlerando.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/TCR-17-of-20-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-729\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">At the border of Greece and Turkey with less than 300km to go&#8230;<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;<em>Doug\u2019s goals were simple: ride all the way to Istanbul, and finish the race. Doug was clueless about what he was really getting himself into; but why not give it a go?<\/em>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Doug Migden started randonneuring in 2010 and the distance bug bit him hard. 1200km PBP 2011, 1600km <em>Miglia Italia<\/em> 2012, 2200km\u00a0<em>Giro Ciclistico delle Repubbliche Marinare<\/em> 2014, 15, 16&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.7;\">What&#8217;s next when you&#8217;re riding that kind of distance? For Doug, the Transcontinental Race (TCR) from Belgium to Turkey presented an attractive answer and an irresistible challenge.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.7;\">You can read about Doug&#8217;s 2015 TCR in a piece by David Longdon on The Seattle PI Blog, which also includes Doug&#8217;s detailed ride report and photos. Check it out\u00a0here:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.seattlepi.com\/velocity\/2016\/07\/10\/doug-migdens-2015-transcontinental-race\/\">http:\/\/blog.seattlepi.com\/velocity\/2016\/07\/10\/doug-migdens-2015-transcontinental-race\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Doug will be riding the TCR again this year, starting on July 29th.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Doug\u2019s goals were simple: ride all the way to Istanbul, and finish the race. Doug was clueless about what he was really getting himself into; but why not give it a go?&#8221; Doug Migden started randonneuring in 2010 and the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.seattlerando.org\/?p=726\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other-rides","category-sir-members"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.seattlerando.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.seattlerando.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.seattlerando.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.seattlerando.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.seattlerando.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=726"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.seattlerando.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":745,"href":"https:\/\/blog.seattlerando.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726\/revisions\/745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.seattlerando.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.seattlerando.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.seattlerando.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}