{"id":360,"date":"2015-05-26T19:12:05","date_gmt":"2015-05-26T19:12:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beta.canyonvelo.org\/?p=360"},"modified":"2020-04-22T00:15:31","modified_gmt":"2020-04-22T00:15:31","slug":"breathless-agony-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canyonvelo.org\/index.php\/2015\/05\/26\/breathless-agony-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Breathless Agony 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>by George Tomasich<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-right: 15px; float: left;\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/ArticlePics\/CVBA2015-1a.jpg\" alt=\"CVBA2015 1a\" width=\"250\" height=\"188\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cyclingpros.com\/onyx.htm\">The Breathless Agony<\/a> is a long and hard century. The route includes a dirt road, four passes, and a mountain-top finish at mile 75.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The ride starts in Redlands and winds through a semi-rural area before climbing Jack Rabbit Trail (pass #1, dirt road). Then, after visiting Beaumont, the route heads up Oak Glen Road (pass #2), followed by a descent to Mill Creek Ranger Station.<\/p>\n<p>Here the ride enters San Bernardino National Forest, climbing Mill Creek Road (pass #3), aka Damnation Alley.<\/p>\n<p>After visiting Angelus Oaks, Highway 38 continues on to climb up to Onyx Summit (pass #4, 8,443 feet). From Onyx Summit it is 38 miles back to the start, most of it downhill.<\/p>\n<p>A big group of Canyon Velo fellow riders got together at the starting line, ready to confront these slopes, interminable climbs.<\/p>\n<p>The CV contingent included Danny Davisson, David Stanton, Ralph Bonnin, Glen Wells, John Ritchie, Chris Morris, Chris Bergstrom, Clint Shaffer, &amp; myself (I hope not forgetting anyone)<\/p>\n<p>On a personal note, my efforts on the grueling course were further motivated when I recalled Mr. Charlie Tatarian&#8217;s words of encouragement that helped me believe (hopefully) that I could finish the ride in 5 hrs or less&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-left: 15px; float: right;\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/ArticlePics\/CVBA2015-2.jpg\" alt=\"CVBA2015 2\" width=\"300\" \/>The weather was perfect, the mountains benevolent, and this fantastic CV crew of mountain goats completed the route way before the day was over&#8230; the times put up by our members were truly impressive from a team perspective !!! &amp; True to Charlie&#8217;s prediction, I finished in 3rd place overall with a time of 4 Hrs 41 minutes!&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>From now on the name of Canyon Velo will be associated with a very exclusive\/elite group of &#8220;crazy goats&#8221; &amp; Breathless Agony Mountain lovers as a result of our strong team showing !!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by George Tomasich The Breathless Agony is a long and hard century. The route includes a dirt road, four passes, and a mountain-top finish at mile 75.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-clubnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canyonvelo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canyonvelo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canyonvelo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canyonvelo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canyonvelo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=360"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/canyonvelo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":366,"href":"https:\/\/canyonvelo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360\/revisions\/366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canyonvelo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canyonvelo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canyonvelo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}