{"id":1119,"date":"2016-08-25T17:08:00","date_gmt":"2016-08-25T16:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nrtoone.com\/home\/?p=1119"},"modified":"2016-08-27T12:02:36","modified_gmt":"2016-08-27T11:02:36","slug":"oundle-winter-hill-climb-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nrtoone.com\/home\/?p=1119","title":{"rendered":"Oundle Winter Hill Climb Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a handicap based challenge using 12 uphill Strava segments within approximately 10 miles of Oundle. The competition segments will be revealed on 1 September.<\/p>\n<p>The challenge starts on 1 September and ends on 28 February 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Each competitor&#8217;s best time on each hill prior to 1 September is taken as their base time, the aim is to improve your time on each uphill segment during the next six months.<\/p>\n<p>The overall winner will be the rider who has improved their times by the greatest aggregate amount. This can be done by either improving fitness or reducing fatness!<\/p>\n<p>The segments have been chosen such that they are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>All uphill to minimise the effect of group riding and wind direction.<\/li>\n<li>Close to Oundle so that all competitors are likely to already done them often enough to have achieved reasonable times commensurate with their current level of ability and fitness.<\/li>\n<li>Avoid main roads and dangerous junctions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Rules:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>The best 8 improvements from the 12 possible hills are counted.<\/li>\n<li>Each month bonus points are awarded for the top three single segment improvements.<\/li>\n<li>Group riding is allowed but no pushes or any other outside assistance.<\/li>\n<li>Rides must be uploaded to Strava by the end of each month to be considered for the monthly bonus points.<\/li>\n<li>Riders must join the &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.strava.com\/clubs\/219849\">Oundle Hill Climb Challenge<\/a>&#8221; group before 1 September 2016. (I may be prepared to add one or two latecomers after this date but because of the extra work that would entail I am not promising&#8230;)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Scoring:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>The total number of seconds improvement over your base time for the best 8 segments are counted<\/li>\n<li>Each month three bonuses are awarded for the best improvements, valued at 20s, 10s and 5s. (Only one bonus per person per month.)<\/li>\n<li>The winner is the rider with the greatest overall improvement over 8 segments plus any bonuses.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a handicap based challenge using 12 uphill Strava segments within approximately 10 miles of Oundle. The competition segments will be revealed on 1 September. The challenge starts on 1 September and ends on 28 February 2017. Each competitor&#8217;s best time on each hill prior to 1 September is taken as their base time, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nrtoone.com\/home\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nrtoone.com\/home\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nrtoone.com\/home\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nrtoone.com\/home\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nrtoone.com\/home\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1119"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.nrtoone.com\/home\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1131,"href":"https:\/\/www.nrtoone.com\/home\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1119\/revisions\/1131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nrtoone.com\/home\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nrtoone.com\/home\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nrtoone.com\/home\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}