{"id":1748,"date":"2015-06-26T08:51:36","date_gmt":"2015-06-26T07:51:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.craigsheppard.co.nz\/blog\/?p=1748"},"modified":"2015-06-26T08:51:36","modified_gmt":"2015-06-26T07:51:36","slug":"2015-tour-of-friendship-stage-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.craigsheppard.co.nz\/blog\/2015-tour-of-friendship-stage-1\/","title":{"rendered":"2015 Tour of Friendship, Stage 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s hard to believe the 2015 Tour of Friendship has been and gone and entries are being taken for 2016.\u00a0 I was excited to return this year as there was supposed to be a new course for the ITT and a new district for the remaining stages, however when the circumstances changed beyond the organisers’ control they were forced to revert back to the 7km ITT and a district visited back in 2011 for the rest of the race.\u00a0 As usual Bangkok put on a scorcher of a day and it was super hot out on the course.\u00a0 This was my fourth visit to the tour and it was a real challenge to get some new angles of the course and avoid melting into the asphalt.\u00a0 I was pretty happy with the images in the end and here are a few from the days racing.\u00a0 You can view the Stage 1 Gallery with the remaining images here<\/span><\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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It’s hard to believe the 2015 Tour of Friendship has been and gone and entries are being taken for 2016.\u00a0 I was excited to return this year as there was supposed to be a new course for the ITT and a new district for the remaining stages, however when the circumstances changed beyond the organisers’ … Continue reading 2015 Tour of Friendship, Stage 1<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[6,16,25,17,59,58],"class_list":["post-1748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sport","tag-craig-sheppard","tag-cycling","tag-road-cycling","tag-sports","tag-thailand","tag-tour-of-friendship"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.craigsheppard.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.craigsheppard.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.craigsheppard.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.craigsheppard.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.craigsheppard.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1748"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.craigsheppard.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1793,"href":"https:\/\/www.craigsheppard.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1748\/revisions\/1793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.craigsheppard.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.craigsheppard.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.craigsheppard.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}